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The cocoa sector in Ghana is one of few examples of an export commodity sector in an African country that has withstood … Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the current institutional arrangement is able to pass on a significant share of export prices … to farmers, a key objective of the liberalization of commodity markets in Africa. As Ghana continues to capitalize on its …
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Using public expenditure and agricultural production data on Ghana from 1970 to 2012, this paper assesses the returns … expenditure in the cocoa sector, depending on aggregation or disaggregation of expenditure on the Ghana Cocoa Board and other …
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Groundnuts are the most common cash crop and the main source of income for farmers in Senegal. Previously marginal, groundnut exports surged between 2011 and 2013. This new dynamic motivated the Government of Senegal to introduce a tax on groundnut exports in 2017. Senegal is a price-taker in...
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practices, particularly grading methods, in Ghana’s groundnut value chain to obtain a clear understanding of the sources and …
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Uganda has made notable progress in reducing micronutrient deficiencies in recent years, but the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) and anemia among children under 5 remain unacceptably high. According to World Health Organization criteria, VAD remains a public health problem in Uganda,...
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The Government of Uganda has implemented programs and policies to improve the agricultural sector’s recent underperformance. Uganda’s two main food security crops, bananas and cassava, have been critically affected by two diseases: Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) and Cassava Brown Streak...
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assessment of feed millers in Ghana. The findings establish the importance of feed in the poultry value chain. In addition, they … the short term would be nearly impossible. For the egg industry, however, there is potential for Ghana to export to …
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This paper uses Ghana as a case study to illustrate the extent to which Chinese manufacturing firms are driving … Chinese manufacturing investments in Ghana indeed increased during past decade, but quite a few projects have been abandoned … Chinese investors establish themselves in Ghana. Chinese firms source simple raw materials from local suppliers but import …
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(Masara and Akate) and a number of smaller and more flexible CF schemes in a remote region in Ghana (Upper West). Results show …
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