“What is Agrarian Justice?” is the eighth session of our Political Economy Teach-in Series. It was held on July 26, 2023, and delivered by Professor Dzodzi Tsikata.

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.

Our South Feminist Political Economy Teach-in Series aims to strengthen intergenerational dialogue and build a cross-regional feminist constituency. The series covers various topics to interrogate and strengthen understanding of issues shaping conditions in the Global South.