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    Agriculture and Social Protection in Ghana: A ‘LEAP’ in the Dark?

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
    By Stephen DevereuxMarch 2009 
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    Agriculture and Social Protection in Ghana

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
    Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to embark on structural adjustment reforms. 25 years on, its continuing commitment to reform for national economic development has yielded impressive gains in growth and poverty reduction. Poverty in the country is measured through periodic Ghana Living Standards Surveys (GLSS).
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    Institutional innovations in African smallholder carbon projects

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012
    According to this report, climate funds for reducing greenhouse gas emissions can benefit small farmers and help achieve development objectives. In the detailed study of six African agricultural carbon projects, researchers found that communities are benefiting from a range of activities related to planting and managing trees on farms.
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    Cocoa and fertilizers in West-Africa

    IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative, 2012
    Fertilizer use on degraded farms with mature trees has shown a clear positive impact on the productivity of cocoa. This is the main conclusion from this pilot study on the impact of fertilizer, based on Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.The author argues that:
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    ICTs and small-scale agriculture in Africa: A scoping study

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This study aims to explore the opportunities presented by ICTs in small-scale agriculture including environment and natural resources management. It specifically sets out to answer a set of research questions as follows:
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    Cost-minimizing food budgets in Ghana

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    Attaining the daily required nutritional recommendations is a major challenge in Ghana. This paper is tries to determine the cheapest basket of food items that satisfy the recommended daily nutritional requirements of the average Ghanaian.
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    Mind the gap!: id21 insights, issue 41

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Rural areas have long been a source of food, raw materials and labour for cities. So too, are cities places of opportunity for rural dwellers, providing markets for agricultural products, specialised services and sources of temporary employment and shelter. Urban-rural linkages are particularly intense in the periurban
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    Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

    International Development Research Centre, 2009
    This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.
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    Unlocking the potential of contract farming: lessons from Ghana

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This paper examines sorghum contract farming in north-east Ghana in order to explore ways of making such arrangements viable for small farmers. Using the narratives from the key stakeholders who have participated in the contract, this research analyses the technical and institutional problems in the scheme.The findings from this study reveal that:
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    Promoting value chains of neglected and underutilized species for pro-poor growth and biodiversity conservation: guidelines and good practices

    Bioversity International, 2008
    Use of neglected and underutilised species (NUS) can play an important role in improving food security, conserving biodiversity and generating income and employment. Value chain development (VCD) can be a useful tool for realising these prospects, by linking supply capacities to market opportunities.

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