Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project
Agriculture in African South of the Sahara (SSA) can be transformed if the right public support is provided at the initial stage, and it can sustain itself once the enabling environment is put in place. Successes are also specific to the location of projects. In Ghana, interesting insights are obtai...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Jimah, Kipo Kolavalli, Shashidhara Diao, Xinshen Funk, Rebecca Lee |
| author_browse | Diao, Xinshen Funk, Rebecca Lee Jimah, Kipo Kolavalli, Shashidhara Takeshima, Hiroyuki |
| author_facet | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Jimah, Kipo Kolavalli, Shashidhara Diao, Xinshen Funk, Rebecca Lee |
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| description | Agriculture in African South of the Sahara (SSA) can be transformed if the right public support is provided at the initial stage, and it can sustain itself once the enabling environment is put in place. Successes are also specific to the location of projects. In Ghana, interesting insights are obtained from the successful Kpong Irrigation Project (KIP), contrasted with other major irrigation projects in the country. Through an exploratory review, we describe how a productive system evolved in KIP and how public support for critical aspects (accumulation of crop husbandry knowledge, selection and supply of profitable varieties, and mechanization of land preparation) might have created a productive environment that the private sector could enter and fill in the market for credit, processing, mechanization of harvesting, and other institutional voids that typically have constrained agricultural transformation in the rest of SSA. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1535412025-11-06T07:00:51Z Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project Takeshima, Hiroyuki Jimah, Kipo Kolavalli, Shashidhara Diao, Xinshen Funk, Rebecca Lee agricultural transformation cultivation irrigation rice agricultural policies irrigation schemes profitability Agriculture in African South of the Sahara (SSA) can be transformed if the right public support is provided at the initial stage, and it can sustain itself once the enabling environment is put in place. Successes are also specific to the location of projects. In Ghana, interesting insights are obtained from the successful Kpong Irrigation Project (KIP), contrasted with other major irrigation projects in the country. Through an exploratory review, we describe how a productive system evolved in KIP and how public support for critical aspects (accumulation of crop husbandry knowledge, selection and supply of profitable varieties, and mechanization of land preparation) might have created a productive environment that the private sector could enter and fill in the market for credit, processing, mechanization of harvesting, and other institutional voids that typically have constrained agricultural transformation in the rest of SSA. 2013 2024-10-01T13:56:34Z 2024-10-01T13:56:34Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153541 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Jimah, Kipo; Kolavalli, Shashidhara; Diao, Xinshen and Funk, Rebecca Lee. 2013. Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1272. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153541 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural transformation cultivation irrigation rice agricultural policies irrigation schemes profitability Takeshima, Hiroyuki Jimah, Kipo Kolavalli, Shashidhara Diao, Xinshen Funk, Rebecca Lee Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project |
| title | Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project |
| title_full | Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project |
| title_fullStr | Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project |
| title_short | Dynamics of transformation: Insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the Kpong irrigation project |
| title_sort | dynamics of transformation insights from an exploratory review of rice farming in the kpong irrigation project |
| topic | agricultural transformation cultivation irrigation rice agricultural policies irrigation schemes profitability |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153541 |
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