🇬🇭 The Gender Dynamics of Dinnertime: Looking at Food Insecurity and Gender in Ghana 🇬🇭

Somed Shahadu grew up in a rural setting in Northern Ghana.  Growing up, he witnessed first-hand how gender dynamics mattered when it came time for dinner.  In polygamous settings, who ate what and when was no accident.  Now as a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, his research explores exactly how gender dynamics play a role on food security in his home country. In this episode he shares the details of his research, along with a few cooking tips on Ghanaian cuisine. Somed Shahadu is a Ghanaian researcher and Doctoral candidate at the School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS), University of Ottawa. He is a graduate of King’s journalism program and also earned a Masters Degree in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in 2017. Somed’s research focuses on gender and agricultural production in sub-Sahara Africa with a particular interest in the gender dynamics of hunger in Northern Ghana. Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter: @ProfessorHuish

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