Market queens and the blame game in Ghanaian tomato marketing

Women traders in Ghana operate in rural and urban informal markets to bring diverse goods to consumers in the absence of formalised distribution systems (KIT and IIRR 2008). These women, who trade under the leadership of market queens, ensure that food from the farm reaches consumers in all communities. They often make media headlines for several reasons, not least is their control over prices and seemingly exploitative credit relations with farmers. This chapter explores the activities of market traders within the
context of the internationalised trade in fresh and processed tomatoes and how these
factors relate to the negative impact of the recurrent seasonal tomato glut that hits
farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana for which they are blamed.
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