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The Changing Landscape of Agriculture in Ghana : Drivers of Farm Mechanization and its Impacts on Cropland Expansion and Intensification

Houssou, Nazaire - 2015

This study assesses whether the recent public and private efforts to improve farmers' access to mechanical power in Ghana have had the intended effects on the country's agricultural sector. Using panel survey data, this paper analyses the drivers of farm mechanization and its net impacts on...

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Agricultural Commercialization, Land Expansion, and Homegrown Large-Scale Farmers : Insights from Ghana

Chapoto, Antony; Mabiso, Athur; Bonsu, Adwinmea - 2013

The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. Meanwhile, scholars debate whether Africa should pursue a strategy of large-scale or smallholder farms,...

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Farm Transition and Indigenous Growth : The Rise to Medium- and Large-Scale Farming in Ghana

Houssou, Nazaire; Chapoto, Antony; Asante-Addo, Collins - 2016

of small-scale farmers rather than entry of medium or large farms into agriculture, reflecting small-scale farmers … successfully breaking through the barriers of subsistence agriculture into more commercialized production systems. The findings in … policy discussions have not featured these emergent farmers sufficiently in the quest to transform agriculture in Ghana …

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