Home Institution
Whitman College
Publication Date
Spring 2011
Abstract
This paper looks at how growing food insecurity in Ghana, and Cape Coast in particular, is changing the role of women in the community. It examines government agricultural policy and its influence on urban communities, including Cape Coast. It seeks to understand the factors that women take into account when they prepare meals for their families and ways in which women are adapting to increasing prices of food and imported ingredients available in the markets. The research incorporated is based on the personal experiences of the author, interviews, and secondary sources. It looks at power dynamics within the community, as well as between Ghana and “the West.”
Disciplines
Agricultural and Resource Economics | Agriculture | Community-Based Research | Inequality and Stratification | International and Community Nutrition
Recommended Citation
Lay, Diana, "Food Is Life: The Impact of a Changing Food Industry on the Role of Women in the Home" (2011). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 992.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/992
Included in
Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons, Agriculture Commons, Community-Based Research Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, International and Community Nutrition Commons
Program Name
Ghana: Origins of African Identity