Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

Ghana: Local Public Finance and Decentralization, 1994-2004 por Mogues, Tewodaj

“…The purpose of this data compilation effort was to use the data for research on fiscal decentralization and public investment in Ghana. The dataset, which consists of district-level observations, covers all of Ghana’s 110 districts in existence during the period 1994 to 2004. …”
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Africa RISING-Soybean Baby Trial in Northern Ghana por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Government of Ghana, Savanna Agricultural Research Institute

“…This data study contains three-year data from three northern regions of Ghana which were collected to evaluate and demonstrate soybean practices.…”
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Analysis of the Nutrient Content of Feed Resources in Northern Ghana por International Livestock Research Institute

“…Crops residues commonly fed to ruminants by smallholder farmers were sampled at crop maturity from October to November 2014 and analyzed for their chemical composition to determined the quality of these fodder as the second common feed resources in Northern Ghana to help in sustainable feeding practices. To learn more about this dataset, please visit the ILRI Datasets Portal http://data.ilri.org/portal/dataset/my-dataset…”
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Africa RISING-Cowpea Baby Trial in Northern Ghana por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Government of Ghana, Savanna Agricultural Research Institute

“…Project title: Cowpea Baby Trial in Northern Ghana Project abstract: This project aims to evaluate the performance of cowpea varieties by farmers. …”
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Gender Evaluation of Cowpea Living Mulch in Northern Ghana por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…The survey was conducted among farmers who were practicing living mulch in Northern Ghana. Data were collected from 77 farmers in 12 communities across six districts from Jan-Feb, 2019. …”
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Rapid Characterisation of Farming Systems in Africa RISING: Ghana por Wageningen University and Research

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Medium and Large-Scale Farmers and Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana por International Food Policy Research Institute, Savannah Agricultural Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Government of Ghana

“…International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Ministry of Food and Agriculture designed "Medium and Large-Scale Farmers and Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana" survey targeting large to medium scale farmers and tractor owners. …”
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The devolution revolution: Implications for agricultural service delivery in Ghana por Resnick, Danielle

“…In 2009, Ghana began pursuing the devolution of functions and responsibilities from the central government to the country’s 216 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs). …”
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Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Insights from Ghana’s experience por Diao, Xinshen, Silver, Jed, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…This brief explores recent developments in Ghana that lend insight into the drivers of mechanization and the appropriate role of government policy in supporting this transition.…”
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Building evidence for policy and program action for nutrition in Ghana por Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Billings, Lucy, Hidrobo, Melissa, Verstraeten, Roosmarijn, Salm, Leah, van den Bold, Mara

“…This brief provides an overview of existing literature on nutrition in Ghana, summarizing the issues covered by existing evidence and identifying remaining evidence gaps. …”
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Ghana’s agricultural transformation: Past patterns and sources of change por Hazell, Peter B. R., Diao, Xinshen, Magalhaes, Eduardo

“…As more small farm households are attracted into nonfarm activities, farms become more consolidated, rural wages rise, and rural youth become better educated, more emphasis will be needed on the development of technologies and commercial farming practices that raise land as well as labor productivity, are attractive to young farmers, and meet the needs of Ghana’s increasingly urbanized food system.…”
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Hunger, nutrition, and precipitation: Evidence from Ghana and Bangladesh por Cooper, Matthew, Brown, Molly E., Azzarri, Carlo, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…We used a spatial error regression to control for the effects of spatial autocorrelation, and we found an association between precipitation shocks and household hunger in both Ghana and Bangladesh, as well as an association between higher rainfall and worse child nutrition in Ghana.…”
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Irrigation-nutrition linkages: Evidence from northern Ghana por Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Choufani, Jowel, Bryan, Elizabeth, Abizari, Abdul-Razak, Ringler, Claudia, Amikuzuno, Joseph

“…The analysis shows strong association between households’ nutritional status and their access to irrigation, with evidences suggesting that the irrigation-nutrition linkages play out both through the income and production pathways in Northern Ghana.…”
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Labor‐saving technologies and structural transformation in northern Ghana por Mueller, Valerie, Masias, Ian, Vallury, Sechindra

“…We focus on an emerging labor‐saving trend in Ghana, use of motorized tricycles (MTs), which provide an affordable alternative to manually transferring crops from plots to homestead. …”
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Ghana’s macroeconomic crisis: Causes, consequences, and policy responses por Younger, Stephen D.

“…Ghana is in the midst of a severe but not unprecedented macroeconomic crisis. …”
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Limits to green revolution in rice in Africa: The case of Ghana por Ragasa, Catherine, Chapoto, Antony

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Limits to green revolution in rice in Africa: The case of Ghana por Ragasa, Catherine, Chapoto, Antony

“…This paper examines closely the constraints in productivity improvements and evaluates available rice technologies looking at the heterogeneity of irrigated and rainfed ecologies in 10 regions in Ghana. Employing yield response models, profitability analysis, and adoption models, results show various practices contribute to yield improvements in irrigated and rainfed systems including chemical fertilizer use, use of certified seed of improved varieties, transplanting, bunding, leveling, use of a sawah system, seed priming, and row planting. …”
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Impact of Ghana’s agricultural mechanization services center program por Benin, Samuel

“…Many developing country governments—including Ghana, the case study of this paper—have resumed support for agricultural mechanization, typically in the form of providing subsidies for tractor purchase and establishment of private-sector-run agricultural mechanization service centers (AMSECs). …”
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Impact of Ghana's agricultural mechanization services center program por Benin, Samuel

“…The aim of this article is to assess the impact of Ghana's AMSEC program on various farm household outcomes, using data from surveys that were conducted with 270 farm households. …”
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Adoption of farm mechanization, cropland expansion, and intensification in Ghana por Houssou, Nazaire, Chapoto, Antony

“…This research assesses whether the recent public and private efforts to improve farmer’s access to mechanical power in Ghana, have had their intended effects on the country’s agricultural sector. …”
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