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Item COVID-19 and Ghana’s agri-food system: an assessment of resilience(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021) Agyei-Holmes, A.; Boakye, A.A.; Ankrah, D.A.Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) intertwined with a food security resilience framework was used to understand Ghana’s agricultural food system resilience to COVID-19 from a production perspective using a qualitative approach. Agricultural production remained fairly resilient but plagued with labor mobility challenges that delayed production. Specific results showed self-sufficiency in the production of roots and tubers, deficiency in the production of cereals and poultry. Opportunities do exist in rice production. Fall Army Worm invasion threatened cereal production. The government is encouraged to increase funding investment through public-private partnerships to build warehouses and increase production in meeting domestic supply needs.Item Effects of rising food and oil prices on rural households in Ghana: A case study of selected communities in the dangme west district using the CBMS approach(DLSU Business and Economics Review, 2010-07) Asante, F.A.; Tagoe, C.A.; Boakye, A.A.This study sought to examine the effects of rising food and oil prices on rural households in Ghana in relation to their food, access to healthcare and education, changes in their work situations, their financial management practices, and their recreational and leisure practices using three selected communities in the Dangme West district of the Greater Accra region - Dodowa, Ningo, and Prampram. A total of 300 households were interviewed. The households were divided concerning the issue of whether their standard of living was better, worse or had remained the same. In general, households that indicated they were worse off currently than they were last year slightly outnumbered those who had seen improvements in their lives. © 2010 De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.Item The exposure and adoption of New Rice for Africa (NERICAs) among Ghanaian rice farmers: What is the evidence?(African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2011-11) Asuming-Brempong, S.; Gyasi, K.O.; Marfo, K.A.; Diagne, A.; Wiredu, A.N.; Boakye, A.A.; Haleegoah, J.; Frimpong, B.N.The sustainable development of the rice sector in Ghana is constrained by environmental, socioeconomic, research and development factors. Productivity is generally low, about 1 mt/ha under upland and rain-fed lowland rice ecologies which dominate rice production systems in the country. The release and diffusion of the New Rice for Africa (NERICA) varieties across many countries in Africa (including Ghana) brought renewed hope to both farmers and the research community because of the desirable qualities associated with the NERICAs, and therefore their potential to improve food security on a sustainable basis. This study therefore sought to assess the extent of exposure and adoption of the NERICA varieties across the rice growing districts in Ghana, and determine the key factors that affect adoption. A total of 489 rice producing households from three districts (Ejura-Sekyedumase, Hohoe and Tolon-Kumbungu) were involved in the study. The study employs the average treatment effect (ATE) methodology which provides an appropriate framework for the identification and consistent estimation of the population adoption rate and that of the determinants of adoption. The study finds that exposure to NERICA varieties is generally low in Ghana with an average rate of about 6%. Similarly, the adoption of improved rice varieties is low, and the adoption of NERICA varieties is about 6% of the total sample surveyed. The study shows that experience, education and location are important determinants of exposure, while age and access to extension also affect adoption. It is therefore recommended that much effort and resources should be invested in promotional activities to facilitate both the exposure and adoption of the NERICAs among farmers in Ghana. © 2011 Academic Journals.Item Ghana’s rice value chain resilience in the context of COVID-19(Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2021) Ankrah, D.A.; Agyei-Holmes, A.; Boakye, A.A.The 2020 State of the Food Security and Nutrition World report suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may render 83 to 132 million people food insecure. The global south has been projected to be adversely affected by COVID-19 in terms of food and nutritional security. This potentially renders Africa off track in achieving SDG -2 of zero hunger by 2030. Ghana is a net importer of rice and how the sector responded to the global pandemic has received less traction in the agri-food system literature. There is skewed literature that concentrates on the global north. The paper employed a qualitative approach involving key informant interviews across 6 regions in Ghana. The study covered 48 Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAs) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) officers, 80 farmers, and 48 market leaders. We use one of the country’s main food staple - rice to show the food (in)-security situation during the pandemic. We articulate that using the right food security conceptual and theoretical framing remains imperative in understanding food (in)-security. The findings showed price hikes during the imposition of lockdown affected access (physical and effective demand). Rice however remained available during and after the lockdown imposition. Ghana’s rice production output was affected during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The ramification of COVID-19 on Ghana’s rice sector was not dire but points to the vulnerability of the rice value chain to future pandemics. Important policy actions are needed to consolidate particular gains made in Ghana’s planting for food and jobs to minimize rice imports.Item Participatory farm budgeting – A case of pineapple farmers in ghana(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021) Ankrah, D.A.; Agyei-Holmes, A.; Boakye, A.A.This article articulates the usefulness of a participatory farm budget in addressing challenges associated with the recall of agricultural prices, inputs, outputs, and estimate biases in the global south. The study is foregrounded in a qualitative paradigm. Participatory farm budgeting is a method that permits stakeholders to analyze, quantify input, output resources, and farm profit. The method highlighted higher economic returns associated with sucker production, an aspect neglected and trivialized by the conventional farm methods. We recommend dedicated attention to harness the economic benefits derived from sucker production through the radical use of the participatory farm budget.Item Risk Attitudes, Risk Management And Business Success Of Micro And Small Informal Agribusiness Entrepreneurs In Ghana: The Case Of Agri-Food Processors(University of Ghana, 2017-07) Boakye, A.A.Entrepreneurs operating micro and small informal firms including agribusinesses in Ghana face many risks which adversely affect the growth of their firms and subsequent business success. Although risk management is very critical to agriculture related firms, agricultural policies in Ghana have been designed without much consideration to this important aspect of firm management. The impending ‘one-district-one-factory’ policy of the current government for example would need to consider risk management of the firms that would be involved since risk management would influence managerial decisions. The success of the policy would partly be hinged on the ability of entrepreneurs involved to manage risks in a more informed position. The aim of this study was three-pronged. First, it elicited the risk attitudes of entrepreneurs, assessed the factors that influenced the attitudes and examined how entrepreneurs perceived certain risk sources as important to the agribusiness environment in Ghana. Second, the study sought to estimate the effect of entrepreneurs’ risk management practices on agribusiness firm growth. Linear regression models were utilised in achieving these two objectives. Third, the study sought to understand the personality traits of entrepreneurs and what accounted for their business success applying the personality trait theory as attribution to business success of the entrepreneur using an ordered logit model. To elicit entrepreneurs’ risk attitudes, the psychometric theory was utilised. The Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) instrument which lists hypothetical questions that elicit risk perception and risk propensity was used to elicit the risk attitudes of entrepreneurs. Risk attitude was measured as a combination of the scores from risk perception and propensity. The sample analysis utilised data from 159 entrepreneurs (owners) of micro and small firms in agri-food processing in the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions of Ghana. The results showed that about 61% of entrepreneurs were risk seeking individuals. Using a linear regression model, aged and married entrepreneurs showed more risk aversion behaviour. Education exerted no effect on risk attitudes. Male entrepreneurs were more risk seeking compared to females. Results showed that aged entrepreneurs do not give much credence to general economic/political risk as an important risk source to affect them but considered human risk (sickness and death) as important. Female entrepreneurs did not consider market risk as important enough to affect the business environment probably because they had found innovative ways in marketing and these innovations reduced the effect of market risks on their businesses. Subscription to formal insurance showed a positive and highly significant impact on firm growth. To further understand the underlying factors responsible for levels of business success achieved by entrepreneurs, their personality traits using three dimensions (locus of control, self-efficacy and motivation) were estimated. The general conclusion was that the entrepreneur’s psychological disposition has significant effects on business success. Recommendations for this study include initiation and facilitation for the development of marketing cooperatives (as a risk management tool for entrepreneurs) to negotiate fair prices to help mitigate marketing risks. Again, targeted education on the importance of subscription to insurance packages (a risk management tool which significantly and positively affected firm growth) to alert entrepreneurs of the need to insure their businesses and enjoy the inherent benefits is suggested.