GSSP in collaboration with ISSER and GSS launched the 2015 national and regional Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ghana on November 16, 2017, in Accra. The Minister of Planning, Hon. Prof. G. Gyan-Baffour (MP) formally launched the SAM. Dr. Shashi Kolavalli, Program Leader of GSSP, mentions this launch as both timely and important, because it will allow […]
33rd National Farmers Day celebrations in Kumasi
The 33rd National Farmers Day was celebrated with a week long exhibition commencing from December 27, 2017, at the Heroes Park, in Kumasi. The theme for this year's celebration was 'Planting for Food and Jobs', a flagship program of the current government, for food security, import substitutability, export promotion and employment generation. Philip Kwaku Agyemang, a farmer from […]
GSSP Policy Dialogue, 2017
Ghana Strategy Support Program announces its second annual Policy Dialogue, to be held in Accra on September 26, 2017. During this day-long event experts will discuss the various aspects of building competitive agriculture in Ghana.
Changing gender roles in agriculture? What does 20 years of data in Ghana say?
At a time when donors and governments are increasing efforts to mainstream gender in agriculture, it is critical to revisit long-standing wisdom about gender inequalities in agriculture to be able to more efficiently design and evaluate policy interventions. Many stylized facts about women in agriculture have been repeated for decades. Did nothing really change? Is […]
Do women in rural Ghana prefer non-farm enterprises over agriculture for economic empowerment?
From February 1 to February 8, Isabel Lambrecht, Sarah Asare and Doreen Selorm Kufualor (IFPRI, Accra) and Berber Kramer (IFPRI, Washington DC) conducted Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) in the Western and Northern Regions of Ghana. The goal of the FGDs was to learn more about preferences for economic empowerment in agriculture versus non-farm enterprises (NFEs). […]