GPN Working Papers

Movement of nurses is a coalescence of different factors and forces. It is not just an occurrence rising from global equation of supply and demand of nurses as the spaces of globalization are multiple, intersecting, socially and politically constructed.

Since the Covid-19 crisis, we have seen an exponential increase, a surge, in the number of nurses leaving the shores of Ghana to the UK, the USA, Canada, and Aus­tralia. This is worrying because of the critical role nurses play in the Ghanaian health service delivery system.

This paper reviews what Africa can learn from the success and failures of Green Revolution, the pace at which the continental agricultural transformation is progressing towards attaining its stated goals and then proposes few strategic pathways that may be considered to enhance sustainable and resilient agri-food systems that would produce sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet the needs of all people for an active and healthy life – and doing so without compromising the food security, health and nutrition of future generations.

The main motivation of the project was to understand how the power and control of transnational businesses is growing over the agricultural system in the context of persistent agrarian distress because of the changing role of the Indian State and its declining interventions in the agricultural sector.

While it is not surprising then that the fintech sector has had an immense role in shaping the demand for and supply of technology centred on digital identification, a distinct feature of how this technology is deployed is a somewhat nebulous public-private partnership model