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The EADI Blog “Debating Development Research”, set up as a discussion platform for the international development research community, has become quite widely read in the wider community. As in previous EADI General Conferences, we've started a blog series dedicated to this year's conference as an opportunity to share research and opinions discussed at the conference.
If you are convening a panel or presenting at the conference, you are warmly invited to contribute a topical post to the blog. If you are interested, please contact our colleague Christiane Kliemann at kliemann(at)eadi.org for further information. Blog posts can be submitted both before and after the conference.
Reversing Agrarian Change and Restoring Hope in Ghana’s Mining‑Affected Communities
By Gyinadu Abubakar and Evans Odoom
From Cocoa to Gold: What’s at Stake: When classical agrarian theory points to rising food prices as the driver of land value, it assumes a single, agricultural use for land. David Ricardo’s rent model is a good example: more demand for corn raises the returns to fertile land and—because the soil’s productive capacity is essentially fixed—landowners capture higher rents. But in many contemporary rural landscapes this model misses a crucial detail: land is multi‑functional. Productive cocoa farms in Ghana—particularly in the Western North, Ashanti, Bono, and Eastern regions—sit atop significant gold deposits, creating a conflict between agriculture and mining. Read more
Why Knowledge Diplomacy Deserves More Attention
By Sibout Nooteboom
In a world where raw power dominates, countries often find it difficult to govern their internationally embedded value chains from a position of equality. Knowledge diplomacy may help to overcome this difficulty, as experiences from the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) suggest. Read more