The evidence on the potential for agricultural interventions to contribute to improved nutrition has grown considerably over the past decade.
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Individual farmer investments have the potential to fill the gap in public investments and be more cost-effective than large-scale irrigation. However, this development primarily occurs outside of formal systems.
Farmers, entrepreneurs, and businesses are already leading the way by expanding irrigation in response to climate variability and the growing demand for vegetables and fruit through supplemental and dry-season irrigated production.
Hierarchical modelling of small-scale irrigation: Constraints and opportunities for adoption in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper was selected to be included in Water Economics and Policy (WEP) Journal Editors’ choice award for 2022.
Our paper seeks to identify factors that inhibit and promote women’s success in seed businesses, through three case studies of women’s and men’s entrepreneurship across varying seed-related value chains and country contexts in Africa south of the
Evidence from Ghana & Bangladesh on the impact of rainfall shocks on food security and nutrition.
Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh
As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013).
The main objective of this report is to identify interventions that work and recommend options for policies and programs to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms.
Implications of climate change for Ghana’s economy
The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention co
Implications of climate change for Ghana’s economy
The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families.
Ghana
En prenant en compte les plans d’eau intérieurs, le Ghana a une superficie de 238 539 kilomètres carrés et est situé sur la côte centre-sud de l’Afrique de l’Ouest.