Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

Mothers’ non-farm entrepreneurship and child secondary education in rural Ghana por Janssens, Charlotte, Van den Broeck, Goedele, Maertens, Miet, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…In this paper we empirically analyse the impact of mothers’ non-farm entrepreneurship on child secondary school enrollment in rural Ghana. We use nationally representative quantitative data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) and qualitative data from focus group discussions throughout rural Ghana. …”
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Assessing quality attributes that drive preference and consumption of local rice in Ghana por Ayeduvor, Selorm

“…Rice consumption in Ghana has more than quadrupled in the last 60 years, becoming a common staple food. …”
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2013 Social Accounting Matrix for Ghana: A Nexus Project SAM por Ghana Statistical Service, Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The purpose of this paper is used to document the different steps followed to construct the 2013 Social Accounting Matrix for Ghana. The SAM is an extension of the Standard Nexus Structure. …”
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Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural livelihoods in Ghana por Diao, Xinshen, Magalhaes, Eduardo, Silver, Jed

“…This paper examines patterns of rural livelihoods and poverty in Ghana based on the proximity of rural areas to cities of different sizes. …”
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Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Insights from a recent field study por Diao, Xinshen, Agandin, John, Fang, Peixun, Justice, Scott E., Kufoalor, Doreen S., Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…Ghana is one of a few African countries where agricultural mechanization has recently undergone rapid development. …”
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Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana por Yokying, Phanwin, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…This paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing how ownership of land is associated with agency and achievements in agriculture among female and male farmers in northern Ghana, a region transitioning from customary land tenure without individual ownership rights towards a more individualized and market-based tenure system. …”
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Drivers of perceived land tenure (in)security: Empirical evidence from Ghana por Ghebru, Hosaena, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

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Returns to agricultural public spending in Ghana: Cocoa versus noncocoa subsector por Benin, Samuel

“…Using public expenditure and agricultural production data on Ghana from 1970 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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The complexity of local tenure systems: A smallholders’ perspective on tenure in Ghana por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Asare, Sarah

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Maintaining weather gauge stations network for climate information service in Ghana por Muthoni, Francis K., Tunrayo, A., Abdul Rahman, Nurudeen

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The health of farmer-based organizations in Ghana: Organizational diagnostics and governance implications por Francesconi, Gian Nicola, Wouterse, Fleur

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Agricultural intensification in Ghana: Evaluating the optimist’s case for a Green Revolution por Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, McBride, Linden

“…Overall, we do not find evidence of Asian-style Green Revolution agricultural intensification in Ghana; in fact, we find no correlation between population density and input intensity. …”
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Agricultural R&D in Ghana: An assessment of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research por Essegbey, George Owusu, Asare, Roland, Beintema, Nienke M.

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Examining the sense and science behind Ghana’s current blanket fertilizer recommendation por Chapoto, Antony, Tetteh, Francis

“…This paper was written to help bolster the case and present visual evidence demonstrating why it is important to seriously consider spatial soil fertility variability in Ghana and to promote area-specific fertilizer recommendations. …”
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Gender and governance in rural services: Insights from India, Ghana, and Ethiopia por Asante, Felix, Banful, Afua B., Birner, Regina, Cohen, Marc J., Gaff, Peter, Gayathridevi, K. G., Horowitz, Leah, Lemma, Mamusha, Mogues, Tewodaj, Palaniswamy, Nethra, Paulos, Zelekawork, Raabe, Katharina, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Sekher, Madhushree, Sun, Yan, Tadesse, Fanaye

“…As the first output from the gender and governance in rural services project, this report presents descriptive findings and qualitative analysis of accountability mechanisms in agricultural extension and rural water supply in India, Ghana, and Ethiopia, paying specific attention to gender responsiveness. …”
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COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Ghana, Round 2 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Ghana. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. …”
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COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Ghana, Round 4 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Ghana. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. …”
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COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Ghana, Round 1 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Ghana. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. …”
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COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Ghana, Round 3 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Ghana. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. …”
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Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model: the case of Ghana por Houssou, Nazaire, Diao, Xinshen, Cossar, Frances, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Jimah, Kipo, Aboagye, Patrick Ohene

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