Influential studies in the 1980s and early 1990s drew on the Boserup–Ruthenberg theories
of farming systems evolution to argue that African countries were not yet ready for …

Agricultural growth is at the centre of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development
Programme (CAADP, 2009) agenda because increasing agricultural productivity is …

Research on agricultural transformation in increased use of fertilizer and other modern
Africa focuses on the adoption of modern tech-inputs. In Ghana, from 1990 to 2010, the rural …

Maize is a major source of food and cash for smallholder farmers. However, average yield in
Ghana is less than a third of the achievable yield and thus the need to close this gap by …

In recent decades, many developing countries have moved from taxing their agricultural
sector to subsidizing it, a phenomenon referred to as “overshooting”. Using Ghana and …

The contributions of climate-smart agriculture to the transformation of agri-food systems as
well as reducing the vulnerability of smallholder agriculture production to climate change in …

Applying new designs and business formats to production and consumption patterns as part
of the circular economy (CE), an increasingly popular concept within environmental …

This article uses the example of small‐scale, labour‐intensive tomato production in Brong
Ahafo, Ghana to explore some prospects of young people's engagement with the agri‐food …

ABSTRACT Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) intertwined with a food
security resilience framework was used to understand Ghana's agricultural food system …

Many studies have investigated the effects of large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) on
livelihood, while the effects of LSLA by different actors on investment decisions and levels of …