Bio
Dzodzi Tsikata is a feminist scholar activist who is currently Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Her research in the last 30 years has been in the areas of the land and labour relations of agrarian and urban informal economies, the trajectories of African social policy regimes and gender and development policies and practices. Her recent publications include, with Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay and Elisabeth Prügl, an edited book, “Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food: Insights from Ghana and Cambodia”, Routledge, Taylor, and Francis (2023). Dzodzi is the Principal Investigator of a pan-African research, networking and advocacy project, the Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA). She is the secretary of the Executive Committee of IDEAS, a member of the Steering Committee of the Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana, a subscriber of Third World Network-Africa and a member of the Agrarian South Network and South Feminist Futures. She is Managing Editor of Feminist Africa and a member of the editorial collective of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. She is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.