Agriculture and poverty reduction in Ghana
If you asked most Ghanaians where the opportunities of the future lie, they would point to Accra, Kumasi, and other big cities. The country’s thousands of small farms symbolize the past—and they symbolize poverty. But this dichotomy misses an important point. Agriculture is not going away; it is tra...
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| description | If you asked most Ghanaians where the opportunities of the future lie, they would point to Accra, Kumasi, and other big cities. The country’s thousands of small farms symbolize the past—and they symbolize poverty. But this dichotomy misses an important point. Agriculture is not going away; it is transforming. Subsistence farming may be gradually disappearing (the number of Ghanaians who say farming is their primary job fell from 57 to 44 percent between 2006 and 2016), but it is being replaced by a more dynamic, productive, market-oriented agriculture. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1455112025-12-08T10:29:22Z Agriculture and poverty reduction in Ghana Thurlow, James innovation productivity agrifood systems agricultural development poverty If you asked most Ghanaians where the opportunities of the future lie, they would point to Accra, Kumasi, and other big cities. The country’s thousands of small farms symbolize the past—and they symbolize poverty. But this dichotomy misses an important point. Agriculture is not going away; it is transforming. Subsistence farming may be gradually disappearing (the number of Ghanaians who say farming is their primary job fell from 57 to 44 percent between 2006 and 2016), but it is being replaced by a more dynamic, productive, market-oriented agriculture. 2018-09-19 2024-06-21T09:04:36Z 2024-06-21T09:04:36Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145511 en Open Access Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thurlow, James. 2018. Agriculture and poverty reduction in Ghana. In Goalkeepers: The stories behind the data 2018. Pp 30-32. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/case-studies/ripe-for-reinvention |
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| title | Agriculture and poverty reduction in Ghana |
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| title_short | Agriculture and poverty reduction in Ghana |
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| topic | innovation productivity agrifood systems agricultural development poverty |
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