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 …

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 …

Despite the urbanization and gradual rise of medium-to-large scale farming sector, smallholders without substantial … mechanization remain central to agriculture in countries like Ghana. Significant knowledge gaps exist on the adoptions of … agricultural mechanization among smallholders for whom the scope for exploiting complementarity with land is limited. We test the …

support land tenure interventions. We focus on Ghana, based on extensive qualitative fieldwork and a review of empirical …

only improving the institutional environment, will not result in positive returns on investment for smallholders; reforms …

agricultural value chains in Ghana to include smallholders. The study is based on case studies of five programs supported by … smallholders. The objective of this research is to understand how development organizations are conceptualizing and developing … encourage the development of interlinked vertical contracts between smallholders and buyers and investments to improve the …

farming and overcome poverty. However, achieving that goal is challenging for smallholders given their lack of appropriate …