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View article: Crop Production and Pesticide Use: Has Ghana Overlooked the Obvious on Health?
Crop Production and Pesticide Use: Has Ghana Overlooked the Obvious on Health? Open
Vegetables and cereals, besides health benefits, are of significant socio-economic importance in Ghana, because, the whole production process provides employment for both rural and urban dwellers. Unfortunately, the high prevalence of pest…
View article: Adoption of improved white yam (Dioscorea rotundata) varieties in Ghana: The role of farm and farmer characteristics
Adoption of improved white yam (Dioscorea rotundata) varieties in Ghana: The role of farm and farmer characteristics Open
Yams (Dioscorea spp) in Ghana are important food staples and the most important non-traditional export crop contributing to foreign exchange and incomes of smallholder producers. Research and development of the crop over the years produced…
View article: Factors influencing consumption of street vended local foods (SVLFs) in Urban Ghana
Factors influencing consumption of street vended local foods (SVLFs) in Urban Ghana Open
Street foods are important in meeting dietary and nutritional needs of growing urban populations, contributing to their food security needs. In spite of concerns of nutritional value, affordability and localness of street foods, street foo…
View article: Actors Perceptions on Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Street Vended Local Foods in Urban Ghana
Actors Perceptions on Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Street Vended Local Foods in Urban Ghana Open
Street foods play an important role in the lives of urban residents in developing countries. Consequently, there has been a lot of research into the nutritional quality of street vended foods, and the safety and hygiene of these foods. Res…
View article: Cassava Trait Preferences of Men and Women Farmers in Nigeria: Implications for Breeding
Cassava Trait Preferences of Men and Women Farmers in Nigeria: Implications for Breeding Open
View article: Adoption of Improved Sweetpotato Varieties in Ghana
Adoption of Improved Sweetpotato Varieties in Ghana Open
View article: EXPLORING THE DIFFERENT PATH WAYS INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF IMPROVED CASSAVA TECHNOLOGIES
EXPLORING THE DIFFERENT PATH WAYS INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF IMPROVED CASSAVA TECHNOLOGIES Open
To achieve improved production levels, farmers need to master new skills and learn to manage and manipulate relevant agricultural information. Information is one of the basic human needs after air, water, food, and shelter and thus could b…
View article: Does Awareness influence Adoption of agricultural technologies? The case of Improved Sweet potato varieties in Ghana
Does Awareness influence Adoption of agricultural technologies? The case of Improved Sweet potato varieties in Ghana Open
The Government of Ghana together with donor agencies has in many years paid attention to the agricultural sector with special emphasis on staple crops especially root and tuber crops. Sweetpotato has particularly received a lot of research…
View article: Towards a gender responsive cassava breeding program in Nigeria
Towards a gender responsive cassava breeding program in Nigeria Open
View article: Street-Vended Local Foods Transformation: Case of Hausa Koko, Waakye and Ga Kenkey in Urban Ghana
Street-Vended Local Foods Transformation: Case of Hausa Koko, Waakye and Ga Kenkey in Urban Ghana Open
People in Ghana accept various dishes as national foods that originally, were consumed in particular regions and among particular ethnic groups. These foods form part of the national culture and are developed through several processes. Nat…
View article: Using Elicitation Mechanisms to Estimate the Demand for Nutritious Maize: Evidence from Experiments in Rural Ghana
Using Elicitation Mechanisms to Estimate the Demand for Nutritious Maize: Evidence from Experiments in Rural Ghana Open
We conduct a field experiment in Ghana to assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a provitamin A maize variety, (b) the performance of three elicitation mechanisms (Becker-DeGroot-Marschak [BDM] mechanism, kth price auction, and…
View article: Street-Vended Local Food Systems Actors Perceptions on Safety in Urban Ghana: The Case of Hausa <i>Koko</i>, <i>Waakye</i> and Ga <i>Kenkey</i>
Street-Vended Local Food Systems Actors Perceptions on Safety in Urban Ghana: The Case of Hausa <i>Koko</i>, <i>Waakye</i> and Ga <i>Kenkey</i> Open
Safe foods are those that do not cause any harm after their consumption. Food safety and its relationship with public health are of major concern to many people, especially, because of foods susceptibility to contamination. Literature on l…