IFPRI’s 2020 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work around the world. Cutting-edge research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policies, and on our strategic research areas—climate resilience and sustainability, healthy diets and nutrition, inclusive and efficient food systems, institutions and governance, and rural transformation, as well as cross-cutting work on gender—is helping to inform policies and programs to end hunger and malnutrition.
Related to Ghana in this report you find research in areas regarding;
Informing advocacy. Policy atlases, produced for Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda and shared with civil society organizations, take stock of advocacy efforts, analyze and map nutrition interventions, and offer insights for advancing resilience and food and nutrition security.
Crop diversification. Smallholder farmers in northern Ghana maintain high levels of crop diversity that boost both own-consumption and cash incomes. For such farmers, interventions that build on existing crop diversity may be preferable to crop specialization.
Country research. At the country and local levels, IFPRI researchers and colleagues are measuring impacts and prioritizing policies for recovery through work that includes modeling of policy impacts and surveys. Phone surveys have proved useful tool for conducting research during the pandemic, providing useful data on how the crisis and related policies were affecting different populations and businesses in China, Ethiopia, and other countries.
Ghana: A field experiment showed that paying farmers subsidies for use of conservation agriculture practices during the initial years could boost adoption rates not only during the subsidy period, but also after the subsidy is withdrawn.
Agricultural transformation. New IFPRI books look at agricultural transformation in detail, covering agricultural mechanization in Africa and the lessons to be learned from Asia, agricultural extension in developing regions, and evolution of the agrifood sector in Ethiopia. A comprehensive textbook explores the expanding range of agricultural development research. In addition IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report provided a detailed look at building inclusive food systems.
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