production services at a highly productive rice irrigation scheme in Ghana. These service providers earn net profits that are …

Ghana is one of a few African countries where agricultural mechanization has recently undergone rapid development … farmers, which becomes a considerable barrier for smallholders to access tractor services on time. This requires the …

The triple burden of malnutrition is growing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Increasing access to … food environment drivers, ideas and actors’ interests have been neglected. Using a case study of Ghana, this analysis …

qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Ghana. We analyze their characteristics, ingredients of …

agency and achievements in agriculture among female and male farmers in northern Ghana, a region transitioning from customary … specifically in relation to agriculture. This paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing how ownership of land is associated with … that landownership is positively correlated with men’s and women’s agency in agriculture, namely in decisions on …

long hours in agriculture reduces women’s dietary diversity score in Ghana and nonpoor women’s in Mozambique. However, for …There are concerns that increasing women’s engagement in agriculture could have a negative effect on nutrition because … agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to …

within two agroecologically distinct zones of Ghana: the Guinea Savannah and Transition zones. Using essentially historical … access, and changing rural lifestyle. The overall trend suggests a gradual move toward intensification through increasing use …

Using public expenditure and agricultural production data on Ghana from 1970 to 2012, this paper assesses the returns … to public spending in the agricultural sector, taking into consideration expenditures on agriculture as a whole and then … expenditure in the cocoa sector, depending on aggregation or disaggregation of expenditure on the Ghana Cocoa Board and other …

policy discussions have not featured these emergent farmers sufficiently in the quest to transform agriculture in Ghana … large-scale farmers in Ghana. The research was designed to better understand the dynamics of change in Ghana’s farm … of small-scale farmers rather than entry of medium or large farms into agriculture, reflecting small-scale farmers …

children’s nutritional status. This paper investigates linkages between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional … status of women and children using 2012 baseline data from the Feed the Future population-based survey in Ghana. The sample … consists of 3,344 children and 3,640 women and is statistically representative of the northernmost regions of Ghana where the …