Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

Barriers to the empowerment of women and young farmers in Ghana: Qualitative study por Yeo, P., Osei-Adu, J., Arouna, A., Mujawamariya, G.

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Post-harvest losses: Global scale, solutions, and relevance to Ghana por Ridolfi, Carlotta, Hoffmann, Vivian, Baral, Siddhartha

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Public agricultural spending and growth in Ghana: Spending more, smarter por Aragie, Emerta A., Artavia, Marco, Pauw, Karl

“…Despite this long-standing spending commitment, Ghana’s agricultural budget share has remained well below 10 percent during the last decade. …”
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Tackling post harvest loss in Ghana: Cost-effectiveness of technologies por Baral, Siddhartha, Hoffmann, Vivian

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Trends and composition of government expenditures on agriculture in Ghana, 1960-2015 por Benin, Samuel

“…Also, expenditures of the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) were included in GAE, even though Cocobod, although responsible for the management and development of the cocoa subsector, is not part of the government sector. …”
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What are the impacts of devolution on agricultural civil servants and services in Ghana? por Resnick, Danielle

“…In 2009, Ghana passed Local Government Instrument 1961 (LI 1961) to devolve a set of functions from the central government to the country’s 216 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDA). …”
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Women’s empowerment and child nutrition in polygynous households of Northern Ghana por Bourdier, Tomoé

“…Using the Feed the Future Ghana Population Survey data, I investigate the relationship between polygyny and children’s nutrition, and how it may be mediated through women’s bargaining power. …”
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A chicken and maize situation: The poultry feed sector in Ghana por Andam, Kwaw S., Johnson, Michael E., Ragasa, Catherine, Kufoalor, Doreen S., Gupta, Sunipa Das

“…This study focuses on the feed milling industry, which serves as the link between maize and poultry, through a field assessment of feed millers in Ghana. The findings establish the importance of feed in the poultry value chain. …”
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A spatial analysis of youth livelihoods and rural transformation in Ghana por Diao, Xinshen, Silver, Jed

“…Ghana’s population is becoming younger and increasingly urbanized – by 2010, over half the population lived in urban settlements of more than 5,000 people – raising concerns among policy makers regarding the location and types of jobs required to employ the youth. …”
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Ghana’s economy-wide transformation: Past patterns and future prospects por Diao, Xinshen, Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…Chapter 2 shows that the predominant source of labor productivity growth in Ghana has come from productivity increases within sectors, with the agricultural sector showing a particularly strong performance. …”
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Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana por Magnan, Nicholas, Hoffmann, Vivian, Garrido, Gissele, Kanyam, Faniel Akwasi, Opoku, Nelson

“…We conduct a randomized controlled trial in northern Ghana over the course of two seasons to test three interventions: (1) training on aflatoxin and its prevention, (2) distribution of free drying sheets, and (3) a price premium for groundnuts that comply with local aflatoxin regulations. …”
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Returns to public agricultural spending in the cocoa and noncocoa subsectors of Ghana por Benin, Samuel

“…Using public expenditure and agricultural production data on Ghana from 1961 to 2012, this paper assesses the returns to public spending in the agricultural sector, taking into consideration expenditures on agriculture as a whole and then separately for expenditures in the cocoa versus the noncocoa subsectors. …”
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Technological and market interventions for aflatoxin control in Ghana: Preliminary findings por Gajate-Garrido, Gissele, Hoffmann, Vivian, Magnan, Nicholas, Opoku, Nelson

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The effects of a CAADP-compliant budget on poverty and inequality in Ghana por Younger, Stephen D., Benin, Samuel

“…Ghana has accepted the CAADP commitment to dedicate 10 percent of government spending to the agricultural sector. …”
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Understanding the measurement of women’s autonomy: Illustrations from Bangladesh and Ghana por Seymour, Gregory, Peterman, Amber

“…We utilize data from women and men in Bangladesh and Ghana to investigate whether respondents who report sole decision making in a particular domain tend to experience stronger or weaker feelings of autonomous motivation—measured using a Relative Autonomy Index—than those who report joint decision making. …”
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Mechanization in Ghana: Emerging demand, and the search for alternative supply models por Diao, Xinshen, Cossar, Frances, Houssou, Nazaire, Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…We therefore adopt a supply chain approach to analyze two types of mechanization practices in Ghana, i.e., a recent state-led mechanization program and the private sector-led service hiring market, against an international perspective by drawing on three Asian supply models. …”
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Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Asare, Sarah

“…This paper provides insights into the challenges in understanding and empirically analyzing the relationship between tenure systems and agricultural investment, and formulates policy advice that can support land tenure interventions. We focus on Ghana, based on extensive qualitative fieldwork and a review of empirical research and policy documents. …”
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What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana? por Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…This paper investigates linkages between women's empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and children using 2012 baseline data from the Feed the Future population-based survey in northern Ghana. Using a new survey-based index, the women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, we conduct individual-level analyses of nutrition-related indicators including exclusive breastfeeding, children's dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity and minimum acceptable diet, children's height-for-age, weight-for-height, and weight-for-age z -scores, and women's dietary diversity score and body mass index. …”
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Economics of tractor ownership under rainfed agriculture with applications in Ghana por Houssou, Nazaire, Diao, Xinshen, Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Based on the hypothesis that owning a tractor and hiring tractor services are not necessarily perfect substitutes for farmers with relatively large farm sizes, this paper assesses whether mechanization services can be profitable for the private sector in Ghana. It particularly addresses whether farmer-to-farmer service provision is a viable alternative to current programs, which should be promoted by policymakers for scaling up agricultural mechanization in the country.…”
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Optimizing farming systems for sustainable intensification in Savulgu, Northern Ghana por Eshetae, Meron Awoke, Abera, Wuletawu

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