This study determines the impact of the adoption of improved rice varieties on household food security using farm-level data from 900 households in Northern Ghana. We employed the doubly...
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Increasing numbers of young people enter Sub-Saharan Africa's labour markets each year while industrial jobs only grow slowly. As 62% of...
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Irrigated rice farmers agreed that risk affects their venture.
Socioeconomic factors, risk perception and ecological changes determine farmers' utilisation of risk...
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Biochar increases the cost of production in the first cropping season.
Residual biochar reduces cost of production in the second cropping season.
Benefit cost ratios of...
This publication describes climate-smart agriculture case studies that apply the five action points for CSA implementation. The action points are:
expanding the evidence base for CSA...
A review of Ghana’s planting for food and jobs program: Implementation, impacts, benefits, and costs
Farm input subsidies are widely used in Sub-Saharan African countries as a response to low adoption of fertilizers and seeds. While subsidy programs traditionally focused on helping...
Background
Government of Ghana’s effort to reduce income inequality consistently poses a major challenge to public policy formulation. The promotion and dissemination of agricultural technologies as a pathway out...
Last October, the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) and the Initiative Prospective agricole et rurale (IPAR), with the support of Intervalle, organised a webinar on the role of trade...