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Factor Endowments, Wage Growth, and Changing Food Self-Sufficiency : Evidence from Country-Level Panel Data
Otsuka, Keijiro; Liu, Yanyan; Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2013
Asian countries have witnessed a sharp increase in real wage as a result of rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent years. Using a country level panel data from 1980 to 2010, this paper examines the effects of real wage increase on Asian agriculture that traditionally used...
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Growth of Modern Service Providers for the African Agricultural Sector : An Insight from a Public Irrigation Scheme in Ghana
Takeshima, Hiroyuki - 2018
production services at a highly productive rice irrigation scheme in Ghana. These service providers earn net profits that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910853
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Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana : Insights From a Recent Field Study
Diao, Xinshen - 2018
Ghana is one of a few African countries where agricultural mechanization has recently undergone rapid development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912091
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Transitioning to Nutrition-Sensitive Food Environments in Ghana : Triple Sector Strategies to Reduce the Triple Burden of Malnutrition
Mockshell, Jonathan; Asante-Addo, Collins; Andam, Kwaw; … - 2021
food environment drivers, ideas and actors’ interests have been neglected. Using a case study of Ghana, this analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212716
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Agricultural Commercialization, Land Expansion, and Homegrown Large-Scale Farmers : Insights from Ghana
Chapoto, Antony; Mabiso, Athur; Bonsu, Adwinmea - 2013
qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Ghana. We analyze their characteristics, ingredients of …
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Landownership and the Gender Gap in Agriculture : Disappointing Insights from Northern Ghana
Yokying, Phanwin; Lambrecht, Isabel - 2019
agency and achievements in agriculture among female and male farmers in northern Ghana, a region transitioning from customary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105776
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How Does Women's Time in Reproductive Work and Agriculture Affect Maternal and Child Nutrition? Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal
Komatsu, Hitomi; Malapit, Hazel Jean; Theis, Sophie - 2016
poorer nutrition. Using data from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal, we find that on the whole, in poor … long hours in agriculture reduces women’s dietary diversity score in Ghana and nonpoor women’s in Mozambique. However, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128953
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Changes in Ghanaian Farming Systems : Stagnation or a Quiet Transformation?
Houssou, Nazaire; Johnson, Michael; Kolavalli, Shashidhara - 2016
within two agroecologically distinct zones of Ghana: the Guinea Savannah and Transition zones. Using essentially historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129007
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Returns to Agricultural Public Spending in Ghana : Cocoa versus Noncocoa Subsector
Benin, Samuel - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129009
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Farm Transition and Indigenous Growth : The Rise to Medium- and Large-Scale Farming in Ghana
Houssou, Nazaire; Chapoto, Antony; Asante-Addo, Collins - 2016
large-scale farmers in Ghana. The research was designed to better understand the dynamics of change in Ghana’s farm … policy discussions have not featured these emergent farmers sufficiently in the quest to transform agriculture in Ghana …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129013