Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

Green revolution in Ghana: Looking for the key under the lamp post por Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, McBride, Linden

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Policy priorities to support Ghana’s commercial seed sector development por Tripp, Robert, Mensah-Bonsu, Akwesi

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Food processing and agricultural productivity challenges: The case of tomatoes in Ghana por Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z., Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Diao, Xinshen

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Ghana's commercial seed sector: New incentives or continued complacency? por Tripp, Robert, Mensah-Bonsu, Akwesi

“…This paper examines the current status and recent changes in Ghana’s commercial seed system for field crops. It includes a review of present performance and an examination of the factors that might influence the course of seed system develop-ment in the near future. …”
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Institutional and public expenditure review of Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture por Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Birner, Regina, Benin, Samuel, Horowitz, Leah, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Thompson, Nii Moi, Poku, John

“…This public expenditure and institutional review of Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture offers insights on diagnosing limitations to and identifying strategies for improving the capacity of ministries to make effective use of human and financial resources. …”
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Potential impacts of a green revolution in Africa: The case of Ghana por Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen, Thurlow, James, Al-Hassan, Ramatu M.

“…Results from a CGE model for Ghana show that green revolution type growth is strongly pro‐poor and provides substantial transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a green revolution happen in Africa. …”
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The renewed case for farmers' cooperatives: Diagnostics and implications from Ghana por Francesconi, Gian Nicola, Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie

“…To understand why this is so, we postulate that in rural Ghana, four typologies can be used to classify FBOs and to distinguish them on the basis of their membership structure and rules of conduct. …”
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Sanitation practices and circular pathways in the Upper West Region of Ghana por Gebrezgabher, Solomie A., Dongzagla, A., Joshi, Deepa, Nicol, Alan

“…However, access to safely managed sanitation in Ghana remains low. In 2022, the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP)1 estimated that access to safe sanitation in Ghana was less than 16%, with approximately 17.2% of the population still practicing open defecation. …”
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Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana por Maxwell, Daniel G., Levin, Carol E., Armar-Klemesu, Margaret, Ruel, Marie T., Morris, Saul Sutkover, Ahiadeke, Clement

“…The Accra Urban Food and Nutrition Study was a collaborative effort between IFPRI, the Noguchi Institute of Medical Research, and the World Health Organization to assess the nature of urban poverty and the relationship between urban poverty and food insecurity or malnutrition in Accra, Ghana, in 1996–97. By exploring the major determinants of food security and nutrition status, the study develops indicators of food and livelihood security that are appropriate for an urban setting. …”
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Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana por Maxwell, Daniel G., Levin, Carol E., Armar-Klemesu, Margaret, Ruel, Marie T., Morris, Saul Sutkover, Ahiadeke, Clement

“…The Accra Urban Food and Nutrition Study was a collaborative effort between IFPRI, the Noguchi Institute of Medical Research, and the World Health Organization to assess the nature of urban poverty and the relationship between urban poverty and food insecurity or malnutrition in Accra, Ghana, in 1996–97. By exploring the major determinants of food security and nutrition status, the study develops indicators of food and livelihood security that are appropriate for an urban setting. …”
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Mixed Farming Systems Research: Experiences from northern Ghana por Abdul Rahman, Nurudeen, Wuletawu, Abera, Zemadim, Birhanu, Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Van der Hoek, Rein, Oke, Adebayo, Chantima Rashida, Ziblila, Vincenti, Barbara, Abena, Ofosu, Amankwa-Yeboah, Patricia

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Regional disparities in Ghana: Policy options and public investment implications por Al-Hassan, Ramatu M., Diao, Xinshen

“…This paper sets out to identify avenues for pro-poor growth in Ghana, focussing on agricultural opportunities, particularly in northern Ghana. …”
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Linking research and policy: The case of Ghana's rice trade policy por deGrassi, Aaron

“…Against this background, this paper seeks to examine and explain research-policy linkages in the case of rice tariff reform in Ghana. It is based on literature reviews and 70 interviews. …”
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Regional disparities in Ghana: Policy options and public investment implications por Al-Hassan, Ramatu M., Diao, Xinshen

“…This paper sets out to identify avenues for pro-poor growth in Ghana, focussing on agricultural opportunities, particularly in northern Ghana. …”
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The response of local maize prices to the 1983 currency devaluation in Ghana por Badiane, Ousmane, Shively, Gerald E.

“…This paper investigates the respective roles of spatial integration and arbitrage costs in explaining the adjustment of local prices to policy changes using the example of Ghana. We introduce a model of price formation and market integration that incorporates the price transmission process between local and central markets and also captures the implications for volatility of local prices. …”
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Causes and consequences of changing land tenure institutions in Western Ghana por Otsuka, Keijiro, Aidoo, J. B., Tachibana, Towa, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Under such conditions, more labor-intensive and land-saving farming systems must be established. In Western Ghana, customary land tenure institutions have evolved toward individualized systems in order to provide appropriate incentives to invest in tree planting and management.…”
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Assessment of the impact of the Ghana Strategy Support Program, 2005-2008 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP) aims to build the capacity of agricultural stakeholders in Ghana to develop and implement agricultural and rural devel-opment policy reforms. …”
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Operational details of the 2008 fertilizer subsidy in Ghana: Preliminary report por Banful, Afua Branoah

“…In July 2008, the government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50Kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an effort to mitigate the effect of rising energy and food prices. …”
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Public expenditure and institutional review: Ghana’s ministry of food and agriculture por Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Birner, Regina, Benin, Samuel, Horowitz, Leah, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Thompson, Nii Moi, Poku, John, Babu, Suresh Chandra

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Technical brief: Targeting agricultural lime for acid croplands in Ghana por Bisrat Gebrekidan, Silva, Joao Vasco, Sida, Tesfaye S., Baudron, Frederic, Gameda, Samuel, Chamberlin, Jordan, Debello, Moti Jaleta, Deo-Gratias Hougni, Kamaluddin Tijjani, Rahael Assefa

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