This critical text is a timely ethnography of how global powers, local resistance, and capital flows are shaping contemporary African foodways. Ghana was one of the first countries targeted by a group of US donors and agribusiness corporations that funded an ambitious plan to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for African farmers. The collective believed that GM crops would help farmers increase their yields and help spark a “new” Green Revolution on the continent. Soon after the project began in Ghana, a nationwide food sovereignty movement emerged in opposition to GM crops. Today, in spite of impressive efforts and investments by proponents, only two GM crops remain in the pipeline. Why, after years of preparation, millions of dollars of funding, and multiple policy reforms, did these megaprojects effectively come to a halt? One of the first ethnographies to take on the question of GM crops in the African context, We Are Not Starving: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana blends archival analysis, interviews, and participant observation with Ghanaian scientists, farmers, activists, and officials. Ultimately the text aims to illuminate why GM crops have animated the country and to highlight how their introduction has opened an opportunity to air grievances about the systematic de-valuing and exploitation of African land, labor, and knowledge that have been centuries in the making. "Joeva Sean Rock offers a compelling ethnographic account of how Ghanaian farmers, activists, and scientists challenge racialized development schemes that aim to 'revolutionize' African agriculture and foodways." — ADIA BENTON , Northwestern University " We Are Not Starving is an utterly compelling account of how the failure of international donors to understand and respect the recipients of development aid contributes to the failure of their projects. Through the industry's attempts to introduce GMO crops in Ghana, anthropologist Joeva Sean Rock draws lessons essential for anyone who wants international development to work. If you want to understand the real, on-the-ground politics of GMOs, start here." — MARION NESTLE , New York University "In this thoughtful and engaged ethnography, Joeva Sean Rock explores debates around genetically modified crops in Ghana. Through it, we are led with admirable clarity, analytical rigour, and a fine eye for detail to understand what is at stake when humanitarian urgency becomes an alibi for a broad spectrum of political reconfigurations and contestations." — RAJ PATEL , University of Texas at Austin "In this important new book, anthropologist Joeva Sean Rock brings a fresh perspective to the struggle over GMOs in Africa—one that centers Ghanaians' collective memory of development efforts gone wrong and 'recipient fatigue.' In engaging prose, Rock helps us understand the true concerns animating the anti-GMO movement in Ghana as it reacts to coordinated efforts by private foundations, aid donors, and multinational companies to deliver a "gift" that many Ghanaians do not want." — RACHEL SCHURMAN , University of Minnesota "In this well researched, yet very approachable text, Joeva Sean Rock sheds light on the controversies surrounding the introduction of GMO crops in Ghana and the vital role that civil society and the food sovereignty movement are playing in raising critical questions about this corporate and donor-driven agenda. Her work deftly shows the reader how local actors are exerting their agency to reshape the African agricultural development agenda." — WILLIAM G. MOSELEY , Macalester College, and steering committee member of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition . JOEVA SEAN ROCK is an assistant professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University.