Agriculture plays a key role in Ghana's economy and that of sub Saharan Africa. Transforming agriculture in Ghana is key to increasing farm output, reducing poverty, ensuring environmental sustainability and reducing food insecurity. Linear transfer of technology addressing productivity, marketing and policy underlies the poor performance of the rice sector hence the need for the Innovation Systems Approach using the Innovation Platform which is a coalition of actors along the value chain as a key tool. Rice is the second most important cereal after maize in Ghana and is fast becoming a cash crop. Rice production and the area cropped are increasing but national annual average yield has remained low, at 2.5 tons/hectare. Despite the enabling...
Since the dramatic success of the green revolution in tropical Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, similar ...
Rice is an important food crop in Ghana. However, its production has constantly been below 40% of t...
Rice is an important food crop in Ghana. However, its production has constantly been below 40% of t...
A two-year emergency rice (Oryza sativa L.) initiative was launched in 2009 in response to the globa...
Achieving a sustainable food supply is crucial to meet the ever-increasing demand emanating from hig...
Achieving a sustainable food supply is crucial to meet the ever-increasing demand emanating from hig...
A two-year emergency rice (Oryza sativa L.) initiative project was launched in 2009 in response to t...
Irrigated rice has been grown over a number of decades in Ghana on state-sponsored government irriga...
Pilot testing of GAP packages has been tested in two sites in Kumasi, Ghana in 2019 in the farmers f...
The framework has been used in several regional and national rice value chain upgrading strategies. ...
Rice is an important staple crop, with current demand higher than the domestic supply in Ghana. This...
Rice is an important staple crop, with current demand higher than the domestic supply in Ghana. This...
This paper examines closely the constraints in productivity improvements and evaluates available ric...
This paper examines closely the constraints in productivity improvements and evaluates available ric...
AfricaRice and FAO developed a prospective analysis of rice value chain development with account for...
Since the dramatic success of the green revolution in tropical Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, similar ...
Rice is an important food crop in Ghana. However, its production has constantly been below 40% of t...
Rice is an important food crop in Ghana. However, its production has constantly been below 40% of t...
A two-year emergency rice (Oryza sativa L.) initiative was launched in 2009 in response to the globa...
Achieving a sustainable food supply is crucial to meet the ever-increasing demand emanating from hig...
Achieving a sustainable food supply is crucial to meet the ever-increasing demand emanating from hig...
A two-year emergency rice (Oryza sativa L.) initiative project was launched in 2009 in response to t...
Irrigated rice has been grown over a number of decades in Ghana on state-sponsored government irriga...
Pilot testing of GAP packages has been tested in two sites in Kumasi, Ghana in 2019 in the farmers f...
The framework has been used in several regional and national rice value chain upgrading strategies. ...
Rice is an important staple crop, with current demand higher than the domestic supply in Ghana. This...
Rice is an important staple crop, with current demand higher than the domestic supply in Ghana. This...
This paper examines closely the constraints in productivity improvements and evaluates available ric...
This paper examines closely the constraints in productivity improvements and evaluates available ric...
AfricaRice and FAO developed a prospective analysis of rice value chain development with account for...
Since the dramatic success of the green revolution in tropical Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, similar ...
Rice is an important food crop in Ghana. However, its production has constantly been below 40% of t...
Rice is an important food crop in Ghana. However, its production has constantly been below 40% of t...