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1 Masoud, J.; Agyare, W. A.; Forkuor, Gerald; Namara, Regassa; Ofori, E. 2013. Modeling inland valley suitability for rice cultivation. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 8(1):9-19.
Valleys ; Rice ; Sensitivity analysis ; Models ; Rain ; Soil fertility ; Land tenure / Ghana / Brong Ahafo Region / Western Region
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http://www.arpnjournals.com/jeas/research_papers/rp_2013/jeas_0113_843.pdf
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The demand for rice (Oryza sativa) in Ghana is increasing at a rate of 11.8% from 939, 920 t in 2010. Though there has been some increase in production it does not match the increase in consumption. This study seeks to determine the most suitable areas for inland valley rice cultivation using computer based models for selected sites (15km by 15km) in the Brong Ahafo Region (BAR) and Western Region (WR) of Ghana. A sensitivity analysis was carried out by excluding the least contributing parameters and varying their weights to determine highly suitable areas. Finally, 12 most sensitive input parameters were identified from the original 22. These were used to model for five suitability classes (highly suitable, suitable, moderately suitable, marginally suitable and not suitable). The model results based on parameters having equal weights showed that 0.5% and 11.8% (BAR); and 1.4% and 21.4% (WR) of the area were highly suitable and suitable respectively. Using unequal weights, 0.8% and 7.6% (BAR); and 0.9% and 13.6% (WR) of the area were highly suitable and suitable, respectively. The study successfully mapped out suitable areas for rice cultivation using spatial models based on limited data set, which can be adopted for use elsewhere.
2 Zereyesus, Y. A.; Embaye, W. T.; Tsiboe, F.; Amanor-Boadu, V. 2017. Implications of non-farm work to vulnerability to food poverty-recent evidence from northern Ghana. World Development, 91:113-124. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.10.015]
Food security ; Nonfarm income ; Food consumption ; Household expenditure ; Forecasting ; Non-farm employment ; Participation ; Food insecurity ; Poverty ; Hunger ; Public health ; Socioeconomic environment ; Linear models ; Regression analysis / Ghana / Brong Ahafo Region / Northern Region / Upper East Region / Upper West Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048046)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16305174/pdfft?md5=da180e20bb4e04280feb14bdeb445e03&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X16305174-main.pdf
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Using survey data from northern Ghana, this study seeks to establish the impact of participation in non-farm work on the vulnerability of resource poor households to food poverty. Vulnerability to food poverty is assessed based on expected future food expenditure of households. The potential endogeneity problem associated with participation in non-farm work by households is overcome using a novel instrumental variable approach. Analysis of the determinants of expected future food expenditure is done using a standard Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) method. Demographic and socioeconomic variables, location variables, and household facilities are included in the model as control variables. Our study finds that participation in non-farm work significantly increased the future expected food consumption, thereby alleviating the vulnerability of households to food poverty. Our study also confirms that current food poverty and future food poverty, i.e., vulnerability to food poverty, are not independent from each other. Non-farm work plays a crucial role in providing the means to overcome the risk of food poverty in these resource poor households. Policies that promote off-farm income generating activities, such as small businesses and self-employment, as well as the creation and support of businesses that absorb extra labor from the farm, should be encouraged in the study region. Because households in the study region are exposed to above average levels of hunger and food poverty, the study recommends the government of Ghana and development partners to take measures that enhance the resilience of these resource poor households.
3 Asante, W. A.; Acheampong, E.; Kyereh, E.; Kyereh, B. 2017. Farmers’ perspectives on climate change manifestations in smallholder cocoa farms and shifts in cropping systems in the forest-savannah transitional zone of Ghana. Land Use Policy, 66:374-381. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.05.010]
Climate change adaptation ; Farmers attitudes ; Cropping systems ; Farming systems ; Theobroma cacao ; Forests ; Savannas ; Agroecological zones ; Land use ; Landscape ; Smallholders ; Living standards ; Indicators ; Strategies / Ghana / Brong Ahafo Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048312)
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The study was conducted to explore actual manifestations of climate change in smallholder cocoa farms to aid extension response to climate impacts, and to understand the reasons for a renewed interest in cocoa production in the forest-savanna agro ecological landscape in Ghana, in spite of unfavorable climatic conditions. Two hundred cocoa farmers were interviewed in nine cocoa farming communities. Selected farms were also visited to document on-farm manifestation of climate impacts as well as innovations and strategies farmers are employing to respond to the adverse impacts of climate change on their cocoa systems. The results revealed various manifestations of climate impacts on cocoa farms which included, increased incidence of pests and diseases, wilting of cocoa leaves, high mortality of cocoa seedlings which affected expansion and farm rehabilitation, and wilting of cherelles resulting in low yield. The farmers maintained that their response to the immediate impacts of climate on cocoa was a shift to cereals due to the unpredictable climatic patterns and the shortened duration of rainfall. However, a combination of storage and supply chain challenges and low returns from cereal production, coupled with land scarcity in the Western Region, where most of them are migrant farmers accounted for their decision to return to cocoa production lately. It was observed, among other adaptive responses, that some farmers plant about three times the plantain suckers they usually plant, to provide a dense temporary shade over cocoa seedlings, and resort to planting more cocoa seedlings randomly per unit area on new farms, contrary to recommended planting approach, as a form of insurance against seedling mortality. More importantly, a community-based fire response system was identified to be a major safeguard mechanism to the threat of fire. Clearly, the farmers are not replanting cocoa in the forest-savanna agro ecological landscape because it is more productive than cereals, but they believe that a low yielding cocoa is far better than a productive cereal cropping systems that offer low returns when compared to cocoa. The study brings out the sustainable livelihood challenges of the rural farmer within the context of a changing climate for appropriate policy response.
4 Mariwah, S.; Evans, R.; Antwi, K. B. 2019. Gendered and generational tensions in increased land commercialisation: rural livelihood diversification, changing land use, and food security in Ghana's Brong-Ahafo region. Geo: Geography and Environment, 6(1):1-17. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.73]
Food security ; Gender ; Living standards ; Land use ; Commercialization ; Diversification ; Crop production ; Cashews ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Households ; Income generation ; Rural communities ; Poverty ; Sustainability ; Rural youth ; Strategies / Ghana / Brong-Ahafo Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049251)
https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.73
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Many smallholder farmers in Jaman North District, Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana are shifting from food crop production to increased cultivation of cashew, an export cash crop. This paper examines gendered and generational tensions in increased commercialisation of land, livelihood diversification, and household food security in the context of globalisation and environmental change. Using qualitative, participatory research with 60 middle-generation men and women, young people and key stakeholders, the research found that community members valued the additional income stream. Young people and women, however, were apprehensive about the long-term consequences for food security of allocating so much land to cashew plantations. Young, middle, and older generations were concerned about their weak bargaining position in negotiating fair prices with export companies and intermediaries. Greater integration into the global economy exposed rural actors to multiple risks and inequalities, such as the uneven effects of economic globalisation, rises in food prices, hunger and food insecurity, growing competition for land, youth outmigration and climate change. The shift towards cashew cultivation appears to be exacerbating gender and generational inequalities in access to land and food insecurity and leading to exploitation within the global agri-food supply chain among already vulnerable rural communities in the global South. With stronger farmer associations and cooperatives, however, cashew farmers stand the chance of benefitting from greater integration into the global economy, through strengthened bargaining positions. Greater understanding is needed about the complex interactions between sustainable food systems, changing land use and gender and generational inequalities in rural spaces.
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