This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results. Source: Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
Book launch: Ghana’s cocoa industry contends with growth, poverty
Ghana’s cocoa industry has achieved consistent growth, but low global market prices, a lack of management transparency, and a shortage of younger farmers loom as major challenges. Source: IFPRI Ghana
Is Ghana serious about decentralization?
By Danielle Resnick On March 15, Ghana celebrated the creation of 38 new metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies (MMDA), increasing the total number from 216 to 254. Since 2000, the number of districts has more than doubled with new MMDAs also created in 2004, 2008, and 2012. As in each prior case, the government justified […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Testing agricultural technologies in Northern Ghana
In 2015, IFPRI collaborated with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), a Council for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR) research institute, to set up demonstration plots to test the productivity of maize varieties in Northern Ghana. Maize is an important food cereal in Ghana, but productivity is low. One […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
New Journal Article published by the Nigeria Strategy Support Program of IFPRI in the Environmental Development journal
The Nigeria Strategy Support Program of IFPRI is pleased to announce the publication of a new journal article entitled “Integrating Environmental Considerations in Agricultural Policy Process: Evidence from Nigeria” in the Environmental Development journal, co-authored by Suresh Babu, George Mavrotas and Nilam Prasai. The authors argue that policy processes that design, develop, and implement sectoral […]
