A5060084888- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Economic Growth and Development
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Working Capital and Financial Performance
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
University of Ghana
2021-2024
World Bank Group
2016-2020
The 2020 State of the Food Security and Nutrition World report suggests that COVID-19 pandemic may render 83 to 132 million people food insecure. global south has been projected be adversely affected by in terms nutritional security. This potentially renders Africa off track achieving SDG -2 zero hunger 2030. Ghana is a net importer rice how sector responded received less traction agri-food system literature. There skewed literature concentrates on north. paper employed qualitative approach...
Abstract A key objective of development thought is to improve the welfare people and enhance their satisfaction with life. This important following literature that suggests increasing incomes may not necessarily lead happiness in long term. In this regard, study investigates drivers Ghana determinants transitions into different states. Using a nationwide panel dataset over three time periods employing econometric techniques, found among are assets, social capital/networks, health status,...
Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) intertwined with a food security resilience framework was used to understand Ghana's agricultural system COVID-19 from production perspective using qualitative approach. Agricultural remained fairly resilient but plagued labor mobility challenges that delayed production. Specific results showed self-sufficiency in the of roots tubers, deficiency cereals poultry. Opportunities do exist rice Fall Army Worm invasion threatened cereal The...
This paper estimates the effect of indigenous risk management practices (used by entrepreneurs) on small firm growth amid current economic crisis in Ghana. The hypothesizes that positively affect informal micro and agri-food processing firms during Cross–sectional limited panel data (covering four years – from end 2019 to 2022) have been used analysis. Firm Growth has estimated using sales volume number employees. Findings indicate apart savings for business purposes as an strategy,...
Abstract This article investigates the distributional impact of mobile money account ownership on farm input expenditures among maize farmers in southern Ghana. Using cross‐sectional data from 1044 households, we employed an instrumental variable quantile regression to for endogeneity and selection bias. We find that socioeconomic, spatial location, institutional factors significantly influence male female‐headed household decisions own accounts. The empirics show male‐headed households...
Smallholder farmers' investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on security land tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features rural markets in Ghana, including dependence future rights over current cultivation rental decisions. The predictions guide evaluation pilot titling intervention took place an urbanizing area located Central Region Ghana. is based regression discontinuity design combined with three rounds...
Recent economic growth in Tanzania has been biased towards industry and services, denying farmers potential distributional benefits. Correcting this anomaly requires part appropriate technologies to raise agricultural productivity. Attempts either develop local tools or import advanced country had limited studies suggest that for poor producers Tanzania, mechanization from emerging economies are more relation their production characteristics. However, being locked-in means both market...
This article articulates the usefulness of a participatory farm budget in addressing challenges associated with recall agricultural prices, inputs, outputs, and estimate biases global south. The study is foregrounded qualitative paradigm. Participatory budgeting method that permits stakeholders to analyze, quantify input, output resources, profit. highlighted higher economic returns sucker production, an aspect neglected trivialized by conventional methods. We recommend dedicated attention...
This paper estimates the effect of indigenous risk management practices (used by entrepreneurs) on small firm growth amid current economic crisis in Ghana. The hypothesizes that positively affect informal micro and agri-food processing firms during Cross-sectional limited panel data (covering a period 4 years – from end 2019 to 2022) have been used analysis. Firm has estimated using sales volume number employees. Findings indicate apart savings for business purposes as an strategy,...