This study by Asante et al., provides a description of the agricultural input market in Ghana in 2019 across six districts with high maize production and two municipal districts noted for agricultural marketing activities. Since 2017, Ghana’s agricultural policy has been heavily focused on implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) program, which […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Mapping the implementation process for subsidized fertilizer distribution under Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs Program
The Ghana Strategy Support Program assessed the implementation process of the PFJ input subsidy program, which is the qualitative component of a broader evaluation study on the PFJ program conducted by IFPRI, ISSER and MOFA with support from AGRA . The study focused only on fertilizer distribution as a distinct complex process of importance, although […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
A review of the Ghana Planting for Food and Jobs program: 2017-2020: Implementation, impact, and further analysis
In this report, Karl Pauw examines the evolution of farm input subsidy programs in Ghana, with a focus on the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative, which was introduced in 2017 and replaced the Fertilizer Subsidy Program (FSP) that was launched in 2008. A review of PFJ implementation reports and other official data sources […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
GSSP hosts seminar on public agricultural expenditure and rural investment strategies
by Karl Pauw Ghana’s low budgetary allocation to agriculture is just one of the reasons why the country was considered “not on track” as measured against the African Union’s African Agricultural Transformation Scorecard (AATS) in 2018. However, some have argued that the quality of agricultural spending is more important than the level of spending. In […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
