By Dzodzi Tsikata

“What is Agrarian Justice?” is the eighth session in South Feminist Future’s Political Education series. This series is an initiative by South Feminist Futures that seeks to strengthen cross-regional, intergenerational dialogue as well as build a cross-regional feminist constituency. The series cuts through various topics with the objective of interrogating and strengthening understanding of issues shaping conditions in the Global South.

This session took place on the 26th of July, 2023 and was taught by Dzodzi Tsikata. In this video, Dzodzi Tsikata unpacks the concept of agrarian justice and discusses its impact in global South contexts.

Professor Dzodzi Tsikata is a Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Before this, she was a Professor of Development Sociology and the immediate past Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana. She has a PhD in Social Science from Leiden University in the Netherlands. In a career spanning over 30 years, Tsikata’s teaching, research and publications have been in the areas of gender and development policies and practices; the politics and livelihood effects of land tenure reforms, large-scale land acquisitions and agricultural commercialisation; and informal labour relations and conditions of work. Her recent publications are the co-edited (with Elisabeth Prügl and Fenneke Reysoo) Forum in the Journal of Peasant Studies on the theme “Commercialising Agriculture/Reorganising Gender” (JPS 48,7, September 2021). She is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Peasant Studies, the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, and Feminist Economics and a member of the editorial collective of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy and Feminist Africa. Tsikata is also a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.