Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model? por Houssou, Nazaire, Diao, Xinshen, Cossar, Frances, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Jimah, Kipo, Aboagye, Patrick Ohene

“…The Government of Ghana (GoG) since 2007 has been providing subsidized agricultural machines to individual farmers and private enterprises established as specialized Agricultural Mechanization Services Enterprise Centers (AMSECs) to offer tractor-hire services to small-scale farmers across the country. …”
Enlace del recurso

Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model? por Houssou, Nazaire, Diao, Xinshen, Cossar, Frances, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Jimah, Kipo, Aboagye, Patrick Ohene

“…The government can play an important role in facilitating the development of a tractor service market; however, the successful development of such a market depends on the incentive and innovation of the private sector, including farmers who want to own tractors as part of their business portfolio, traders who know how to bring in affordable tractors and expand the market, and manufacturers in exporting countries who want to seek a long-term potential market opportunity in Ghana and in other west African countries.…”
Enlace del recurso

Moving in the right direction? Maize productivity and fertilizer use and use intensity in Ghana por Chapoto, Antony, Ragasa, Catherine

“…Using cross-sectional data on 630 maize farmers and 645 maize plots in Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence on the responsiveness of maize yield to fertilizer use and use intensity and the economics of fertilizer use with or without subsidy. …”
Enlace del recurso

Crop price indemnified loans for farmers: A pilot experiment in rural Ghana por Karlan, Dean, Kutsoati, Ed, McMillan, Margaret S., Udry, Christopher R.

“…We use a randomized experiment to investigate (1) the role of crop-price risk in reducing demand for credit among famers and (2) how risk mitigation changes farmers' investment decisions. In rural Ghana, we offer farmers loans with an indemnity component that forgives 50 percent of the loan if crop prices drop below a threshold price. …”
Enlace del recurso

Crop price indemnified loans for farmers: A pilot experiment in rural Ghana por Karlan, Dean, Kutsoati, Ed, McMillan, Margaret S., Udry, Christopher R.

Enlace del recurso

In pursuit of votes: The capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana por Horowitz, Leah, Palaniswamy, Nethra

“…In this paper, we examine the effect of informal institutions on decentralized public-resource allocation in Ghana. The decentralization policy debate in Ghana, as elsewhere, typically focuses on the role of formal institutions of local government in the targeting of local public resources. …”
Enlace del recurso

Land, trees, and women: evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Otsuka, Keijiro

“…Using a combination of community, village, and household surveys in Western Ghana and Sumatra, two areas with traditional matrilineal inheritance systems, the authors and their collaborators analyze the effectiveness of village-, household-, and parcel-level property-rights institutions and arrangements.…”
Enlace del recurso

Land, trees, and women: evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Otsuka, Keijiro

“…Using a combination of community, village, and household surveys in Western Ghana and Sumatra, two areas with traditional matrilineal inheritance systems, the authors and their collaborators analyze the effectiveness of village-, household-, and parcel-level property-rights institutions and arrangements.…”
Enlace del recurso

Equal benefits or not? Farmer perceptions of the cowpea living mulch technology in northern Ghana por Ziblila, Rashida Chantima, Gundula, Fischer, Kipo, Jimah, Abdul Rahman, Nurudeen

Enlace del recurso

Enhancing farmers' resilience to climate change through CSA demonstrations in Northern Ghana por Masoud, Jalaludeen, Ofosu-ampong, Kingsley, Salifu, Fuseini, Abera, Wuletawu, Amankwaa-Yeboah, Patricia

Enlace del recurso

Cost implications of agricultural land degradation in Ghana: An economywide, multimarket model assessment por Diao, Xinshen, Sarpong, Daniel Bruce

“…An economywide, multimarket model is constructed for Ghana and the effects of agricultural soil erosion on crop yields are explicitly modeled at the subnational regional level for eight main staple crops. …”
Enlace del recurso

Economywide impact of avian flu in Ghana: A dynamic CGE model analysis por Diao, Xinshen

“…The primary goal of this paper is to provide a quantitative assessment of the economywide impact of HPAI in Ghana under different scenarios. A dynamic computable general equilibrium (DCGE) model for Ghana has been developed for this study, and a recent (2005) social accounting matrix with a detailed production structure at both national and sub-national levels is used as the dataset for this analysis.…”
Enlace del recurso

Decentralization and local public services in Ghana: Do geography and ethnic diversity matter? por Akramov, Kamiljon T., Asante, Felix Ankomah

“…This paper explores disparities in local public service provision between decentralized districts in Ghana using district and household level data. The results show that districts' geography plays a major role in shaping disparities in access to local public services in Ghana. …”
Enlace del recurso

Identifying opportunities in Ghana’s agriculture: Results from a policy analysis matrix por Winter-Nelson, Alex, Aggrey-Fynn, Emmanuel

“…Recent increases in cereals prices raise questions about agricultural priorities in Ghana. This report presents an application of the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) to the problem of identifying opportunities to enhance agriculture’s contribution to economic growth and poverty alleviation in the country. …”
Enlace del recurso

Information flow and acquisition of knowledge in water governance in the Upper East Region of Ghana por Schiffer, Eva, McCarthy, Nancy, Birner, Regina, Waale, Douglas, Asante, Felix Ankomah

“…This paper provides an assessment of information flows and the acquisition of knowledge in water governance of the Upper East Region, Ghana. These flows are patchy, often parallel, disconnected or slow. …”
Enlace del recurso

It’s a small world after all: Defining smallholder agriculture in Ghana por Chamberlin, Jordan

“…Using landholding size as an organizational filter, we performed a basic descriptive analysis of smallholder traits in Ghana, using data from the 2005–2006 Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS5). …”
Enlace del recurso

Reaching middle-income status in Ghana by 2015: Public expenditures and agricultural growth por Benin, Samuel, Mogues, Tewodaj, Cudjoe, Godsway, Randriamamonjy, Josee

“…Using district-level data on public expenditures from 2000 to 2006, and household-level production data from the 2005/06 Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper estimates the returns to different types of public investments across four agro-ecological zones of Ghana. …”
Enlace del recurso

The role of cocoa in Ghana's future development: Do geography and ethnic diversity matter? por Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Thurlow, James

“…We find that increasing cocoa production by around 60,000 tons per annum is needed to support Ghana reaching its middle-income country target. …”
Enlace del recurso

What does liberalization without price competition achieve?: The case of cocoa in Ghana por Vigneri, Marcella, Santos, Paulo

“…The deregulation of Ghana’s domestic cocoa supply chain that took place in the early 1990s was expected to bring competition among different private buyers and to generate a number of production incentives to the farmers. …”
Enlace del recurso

Decentralization and local public services in Ghana: Do geography and ethnic diversity matter? por Akramov, Kamiljon T., Asante, Felix Ankomah

“…This paper explores disparities in local public service provision between decentralized districts in Ghana using district- and household-level data. The empirical results show that districts' geographic locations play a major role in shaping disparities in access to local public services in Ghana. …”
Enlace del recurso