The Ghana Strategy Support Program has released a new working paper that explores tomato marketing in Ghana. This document focuses on the linkages between farmers, traders, and retailers. In Ghana, the agricultural sector in general and the tomato sector in particular have not met their potential. In the tomato sector, production seasonality, the dominance of […]
The Case of Tomato in Ghana: Productivity
The Ghana Stategy Support Program has released a new working paper that examines farmer productivity: how it varies by region, the drivers of high and low productivity, and implications for the profitability of tomato farming and the viability of the processing sector. The tomato sector in Ghana has failed to reach its potential, in terms […]
Agricultural Services, Decentralization, and Local Governance Workshop June 3
The Ghana Strategy Support Program announces a workshop presenting recent research results on agricultural services, decentralization and local governance on Thursday, June 3rd at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Accra. The agenda appears below, and can be downloaded here. Links to related workshop papers and paper summaries can be found in the agenda and at the bottom of the […]
President Mills Budget for 2009
The Mills administration presented its financial statement for 2009 dubbed ‘Investing in a better Ghana’ last Thursday. The budget is projected at GH¢9.8 billion, which is structured into the three thematic areas of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II): Private Sector Competitiveness, Human Resource Development and Good Governance. GH¢3.013 billion (30.8%) is […]
President Constitutes Cabinet
The list of 19 ministers constituting President Mills’ Cabinet is out. Though President Mills created 23 sector ministries, he is limited to only 19 cabinet ministers as stipulated in Article 76 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana. Conspicuously missing in the cabinet is the Information Minister, Ms Zita Okai Kwei. Though there were media […]