Highlights: Smallholder farmers account for about 65% of forest conversion to farmlands in tropical Africa. The experiences of these farmers have often been neglected in forest policy...
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Contract farming has been shown to increase agricultural productivity and thus welfare of farmers in developing countries. However, studies that look at the potential environmental effects of contract...
Adequate diet during pregnancy has positive effects on the mother and pregnancy outcome. Assessment of diet quality during pregnancy is particularly important in areas where household...
In this article, I examine whether the contemporary regional intellectual property (IP) agreements negotiated by West African countries are more suitable than multilateral agreements to advance...
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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Enhancing farmer knowledge on preventive measures is paramount to the probability and depth of farmer adoption.
There is very low (5%) extent of adoption recommended CSSVD...
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We determine the effect of crop diversification on technical efficiency.
We determine the effect of crop diversification on income variability.
Stochastic input distance function and...
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Climatic variables (annual rainfall, onset, cessation, number of dry days and temperature) are erratic in northern Ghana.
Changing climate substantially affects food...
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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...
This paper examines coping strategies adopted by migrant labourers on cocoa farms in Southern Ghana in the face of food shortfalls. Using primary data from 400 labourers on cocoa...