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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2011Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2011Ghana
Agriculture is the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. It plays an important role in the socioeconomic development of Ghana as it contributes to ensuring food security, provides raw materials for local industries, generates foreign exchange, and provides employment and incomes for most of the population (especially those living in the rural areas), thereby contributing to economic development and poverty reduction.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2012Ghana
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Ghana
Ghana’s “market queens,” itinerant traders who purchase tomatoes from rural farms and bring them to the large urban markets, are accused of acting as a cartel, both driving down the price farmers receive and driving up the price urban consumers pay through restricting the volume of tomatoes entering key markets. Our paper provides the first detailed exploration of the interface between farmers and traders, combining a theoretical model with novel empirical data on daily prices and tomato quality that we collected from Ghana’s Upper East region.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2011Burkina Faso, Ghana, Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2011Burkina Faso, Ghana, Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2011Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa
The consultation workshop with Burkinabe key stakeholders for the V1 Project within the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) of the Volta Basin took place from 14 to 15 March 2011 in Ouagadougou. The meeting room of the DIST in CNRST was booked for the first day while in the second day, the workshop took place in the conference room of the National Archives Centre.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa
Rapid growth of emerging economies, emerging interest in biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels and recent volatility in commodity prices have led to a marked increase in the pace and scale of foreign and domestic investment in landbased enterprises in the global South. Emerging evidence of the negative social and environmental effects of these large-scale land transfers and growing concern from civil society have placed ‘global land grabs’ firmly on the map of global land use change and public discourse. Yet what are the processes involved in these large-scale land transfers?
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Coordination et Changement
December, 2011Burkina Faso, GhanaThe project will orient, align and integrate the four research for development projects (V1 -V4) that have been designed to respond to the basin development challenge in order to contribute to poverty reduction and improved livelihood resilience in the basin.
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Library ResourceMarch, 2011Burkina Faso, Ghana, Africa, Western Africa
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