Committee Member
Dzodzi Tsikata is a Professor of Development Sociology and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana. Her research for the last 30 years has been in the areas of gender and development policies and practices, agrarian change and rural livelihoods, the labor relations of the informal economy, and social policy. Her publications include edited books (with Ruth Hall and Ian Scoones) Africa’s Land Rush: Implications for Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change (Boydell and Brewer Ltd; 2015). She was the first coordinator of the Ghana Social Development Outlook, a biennial publication of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana.
She serves on the editorial advisory boards of several journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Development and Change, and Feminist Economics, and is a member of the editorial collectives of Feminist Africa and Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. She serves on the boards of several civil society organizations, including the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), New Delhi, and the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS), Harare. She is the immediate past president of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.