Impact of Ghana’s Agricultural Mechanization Services Enterprise Centers Program Africa’s agricultural sector, particularly south of the Sahara, has enormous potential to provide jobs and food for a growing population—contributing to food security, economic growth, and poverty reduction. But none of this will happen on its own; realizing this promise requires robust, sustained investment into the […]
Agricultural Input Markets in Ghana: A Descriptive Assessment of Input Dealers in Eight Districts
This study by Asante et al., provides a description of the agricultural input market in Ghana in 2019 across six districts with high maize production and two municipal districts noted for agricultural marketing activities. Since 2017, Ghana’s agricultural policy has been heavily focused on implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) program, which […]
Mapping the implementation process for subsidized fertilizer distribution under Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs Program
The Ghana Strategy Support Program assessed the implementation process of the PFJ input subsidy program, which is the qualitative component of a broader evaluation study on the PFJ program conducted by IFPRI, ISSER and MOFA with support from AGRA . The study focused only on fertilizer distribution as a distinct complex process of importance, although […]
A review of the Ghana Planting for Food and Jobs program: 2017-2020: Implementation, impact, and further analysis
In this report, Karl Pauw examines the evolution of farm input subsidy programs in Ghana, with a focus on the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative, which was introduced in 2017 and replaced the Fertilizer Subsidy Program (FSP) that was launched in 2008. A review of PFJ implementation reports and other official data sources […]
CGIAR’s 50 Years of Innovation that Changed the World
Innovation: IFPRI’s Climate-Smart Modeling and futures Methods for surveillance, scenarios work, and modeling inform crucial policy on agriculture, development, & climate adaptation, and improve resilience. To read more, click here
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