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Gender and climate change adaptation in agrarian settings
US Agency for International Development, 2013The impacts of climate variability and change on the rural poor in the Global South become more pronounced with each passing year. While entire communities and regions will be exposed to the same changing temperatures and precipitation, the ways in which they are vulnerable to these changes will vary greatly.DocumentTrends in per capita food availability in West Africa, 1980-2009
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2013The goal of this paper is to provide evidence of shifts in food consumption patterns in the ECOWAS countries of West Africa from 1980 through 2009.DocumentYoung people, agriculture, and employment in rural Africa
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014WIDER Working Paper 2014/080 James Sumberg, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Michael Chasukwa, Blessings Chinsinga, Jennifer Leavy, Getnet Tadele, Stephen Whitfield, and Joseph Yaro April 2014DocumentKnowledge levels of extension agents and their perceived impact of climate change on extension service provision in Ghana
Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2014This study examined the knowledge levels of extension agents and their perceived impact of climate change on extension service provision in Ghana. Extension agents are employed to develop and deliver educational programmes. Specifically, the paper examines awareness levels of agents on the causes, effects and methods for mitigating climate change.DocumentDoes Rapid Agricultural Growth Require a System of Innovation? Evidence from Ghana & ...
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013John Baptist D. Jatoe, Damien G. Lankoandé and James SumbergDocumentDynamics of Maize Seed Production Systems in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013Full title: Dynamics of Maize Seed Production Systems in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana: Agricultural Modernisation, Farmer Adaptive Experimentation and Domestic Food Markets Future Agricultures Working Paper 61By Kojo Sebastian Amanor, June 2013DocumentThe Struggle over the Commons: Annual Savanna Fires and Transnational Mango Outgrower Schemes
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013Full title:The Struggle over the Commons: Annual Savanna Fires and Transnational Mango Outgrower Schemes in Northern Ghana FAC Policy Brief 62by Joseph A. Yaro and Dzodzi TsikataJuly 2013DocumentCan China and Brazil help Africa feed itself?
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013The questions of how Africa can feed itself, and how the agricultural sector can be a more effective engine for growth and development, have long been targets of national governments. Western donors have increased assistance following the 2007/8 food price crisis.DocumentIncreasing cocoa productivity through improved nutrition
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2012Cocoa is cultivated in more than 40 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 90% of global cocoa production is cultivated by an estimated 5.5 million smallholders and most live below the poverty line and lack access to nutritious food.DocumentAnalytical frameworks for assessing ICT and agribusiness startup ecosystems: for application in Ghana and Kenya
Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013DFID is exploring the analytical frameworks used to assess the support market system for startup businesses in the ICT and agribusiness sectors. The review of analytical frameworks will help inform a Terms of Reference (ToR) for carrying out startup ecosystem assessments in Ghana and Kenya.Pages