Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana
Most efforts to raise fertilizer use in SSA over the past decade have focused on fertilizer subsidies and targeted credit programmes with hopes that these programmes could later be withdrawn once the profitability of fertilizer use has been made clear to adopting farmers and once they have become su...
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| author | Jayne, Thomas S. Kolavalli, Shashidhara Debrah, Kofi Ariga, Joshua Brunache, Pierre Kabaghe, Chance Nunez-Rodriguez, Walter Owusu Baah, Kwaku Bationo, Andre A. Huising, Elzo Jeroen Lambrecht, Isabel B. Diao, Xinshen Yeboah, Felix K. Benin, Samuel Andam, Kwaw S. |
| author_browse | Andam, Kwaw S. Ariga, Joshua Bationo, Andre A. Benin, Samuel Brunache, Pierre Debrah, Kofi Diao, Xinshen Huising, Elzo Jeroen Jayne, Thomas S. Kabaghe, Chance Kolavalli, Shashidhara Lambrecht, Isabel B. Nunez-Rodriguez, Walter Owusu Baah, Kwaku Yeboah, Felix K. |
| author_facet | Jayne, Thomas S. Kolavalli, Shashidhara Debrah, Kofi Ariga, Joshua Brunache, Pierre Kabaghe, Chance Nunez-Rodriguez, Walter Owusu Baah, Kwaku Bationo, Andre A. Huising, Elzo Jeroen Lambrecht, Isabel B. Diao, Xinshen Yeboah, Felix K. Benin, Samuel Andam, Kwaw S. |
| author_sort | Jayne, Thomas S. |
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| description | Most efforts to raise fertilizer use in SSA over the past decade have focused on fertilizer subsidies and targeted credit programmes with hopes that these programmes could later be withdrawn once the profitability of fertilizer use has been made clear to adopting farmers and once they have become sufficiently capitalized to be able to afford fertilizer on their own. This line of reasoning under-emphasizes the evidence that many smallholder farmers obtain very low crop response rates to inorganic fertilizer application and hence cannot use it profitably at full market prices. A central hypothesis of this study is that Ghanaian farmers will demand increasing quantities of fertilizer when they can utilize it more profitably, and that doing so will require improved agronomic and soil management practices that enable farmers to achieve higher crop response rates to fertilizer application. The study’s findings are based on reviews of existing studies from Ghana and the wider region, key informant interviews of cocoa and maize farmers, international and local scientists, fertilizer distribution companies and government officials. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1504792025-12-08T10:29:22Z Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana Jayne, Thomas S. Kolavalli, Shashidhara Debrah, Kofi Ariga, Joshua Brunache, Pierre Kabaghe, Chance Nunez-Rodriguez, Walter Owusu Baah, Kwaku Bationo, Andre A. Huising, Elzo Jeroen Lambrecht, Isabel B. Diao, Xinshen Yeboah, Felix K. Benin, Samuel Andam, Kwaw S. fertilizers agricultural research soil fertility extension activities farm inputs soil management agricultural development food security subsidies Most efforts to raise fertilizer use in SSA over the past decade have focused on fertilizer subsidies and targeted credit programmes with hopes that these programmes could later be withdrawn once the profitability of fertilizer use has been made clear to adopting farmers and once they have become sufficiently capitalized to be able to afford fertilizer on their own. This line of reasoning under-emphasizes the evidence that many smallholder farmers obtain very low crop response rates to inorganic fertilizer application and hence cannot use it profitably at full market prices. A central hypothesis of this study is that Ghanaian farmers will demand increasing quantities of fertilizer when they can utilize it more profitably, and that doing so will require improved agronomic and soil management practices that enable farmers to achieve higher crop response rates to fertilizer application. The study’s findings are based on reviews of existing studies from Ghana and the wider region, key informant interviews of cocoa and maize farmers, international and local scientists, fertilizer distribution companies and government officials. 2015-12-14 2024-08-01T02:52:01Z 2024-08-01T02:52:01Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150479 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute United States Agency for International Development Africa Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Michigan State University Jayne, Thomas; et al. 2015. Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana. International Food Policy Research Institute; US Agency for International Development (USAID), Feed the Future Program; Africa Fertilizer and Agrobusiness Partnership (AFAP); Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy (ILFSP); and Michigan State University. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150479 |
| spellingShingle | fertilizers agricultural research soil fertility extension activities farm inputs soil management agricultural development food security subsidies Jayne, Thomas S. Kolavalli, Shashidhara Debrah, Kofi Ariga, Joshua Brunache, Pierre Kabaghe, Chance Nunez-Rodriguez, Walter Owusu Baah, Kwaku Bationo, Andre A. Huising, Elzo Jeroen Lambrecht, Isabel B. Diao, Xinshen Yeboah, Felix K. Benin, Samuel Andam, Kwaw S. Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana |
| title | Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana |
| title_full | Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana |
| title_short | Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana |
| title_sort | towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in ghana report submitted to the ministry of food and agriculture government of ghana |
| topic | fertilizers agricultural research soil fertility extension activities farm inputs soil management agricultural development food security subsidies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150479 |
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