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 […]
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 […]
MoFA and IFPRI Analyze Commodity Market Price Trends Before and After PFJ
As part of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) program, the Statistics Research and Information Directorate (SRID) and the Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate (PPMED) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), in partnership with IFPRI’s Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP), recently published a series of […]
Communicating Market Analysis: Writing Workshop
Rigorous policy analysis is important. And understanding how to communicate the results of that analysis in a clear succinct way is critical for application to policy decisions. With this in mind, IFPRI-Ghana organized a 3-day policy brief writing workshop on 4 – 7 June 2019 for staff from the Statistical Research and Information Department (SRID), […]