Led by Assistant Professor, Dr. Siera Vercillo, a multidisciplinary team of geographers, historians, political scientists and urban planners mobilize research for major food sovereignty organizations in Ghana to organize their efforts and build their capacity to work towards transforming neglected areas of their local food system, further shifting public attitudes, scholarship, and activism towards justice. Through workshops, events, working groups, policy briefs, edited volumes, & multi-media, several major food sovereignty organizations like the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Food Sovereignty Ghana, the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development and the Ghana Food Movement, with differing engagements in Ghana’s food system (activism, archiving, outreach and academic) participate in movement-building activities facilitated by other academics and practitioners at the University of Toronto and the University for Development Studies in Ghana and beyond, to coordinate efforts and develop collaborations.
