Joeva Sean Rock’s We Are Not Starving is a study of the paradoxes, grievances, and hopes that have followed in the wake of efforts to commercialize genetically modified (GM) cowpeas, rice, sweet potato, and cotton in Ghana. These initiatives have been led by public-private partnerships between the Ghanian state and private seed companies, including large international firms such as Monsanto. Though each commercialization initiative brings together a slightly different set of actors, they are united under the broad helm of the new Green Revolution for Africa, with its emphasis on capital investment and privatization. Rock explores the complex interests and discourses that animate these projects, as well as the deliberations and debates that the projects have provoked. She shows how contests over GM crops serve as a site for farmers, food sovereignty activists, scientists, and even GM proponents within Ghana to air much broader grievances over the continued devaluation of...

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