Beyond Participation: The Effect of Fertilizer Subsidy on the Adoption of Certified Seeds Among Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana

Zakaria, Abraham; Sulemana, Alhassan; Kuwornu, John K.M.; Azumah, Shaibu Baanni

doi:10.1057/s41287-020-00293-w

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“…According to Asravor ( 2018 ), crop diversification is rampant in northern Ghana because of government policies like the Fertilizer Subsidy Programme and its successor, the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. These policies provided opportunities for the youth in northern Ghana to enter the business of farming and for existing farm households to intensify their production by planting new improved crop varieties and apply different farm management strategies (Tanko et al, 2019 ; Tsiboe et al, 2021 ; Zakaria et al, 2021 ). Recent studies like Baba and Abdulai's ( 2021 ) enquiry into the determinants of crop diversification and its effect on household food security in northern Ghana revealed significantly positive associations between crop diversification and household food security.…”

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Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana

Appiah-Twumasi

Asale

2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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Farm households in Africa adopt resource allocation tools such as crop diversification to minimize risk exposure and safeguard their food and nutrition security. This study uses primary data and an ordered probit model to examine how crop diversification impacts the food security outcomes of rural farmers in northern Ghana. The findings revealed that along with other factors like access to extension services and use of soil fertility management practices, crop diversification increased food access and reduced the food insecurity experience of households. As a result, policies targeted at improving the food and nutrition security of peasant households should promote adoption of diversified crop production and use of sustainable soil management practices like composting.

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Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana

Appiah-Twumasi

Asale

2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…To address concerns regarding foreign exchange imbalances due to high dependence on rice imports and Ghana's vulnerability to price volatility in the international rice market, the National Rice Development Strategy of 2009Strategy of (reviewed in 2015 and the government's PFJ initiative both aim at expanding local rice production to meet consumer demand (MoFA-IFPRI, 2020;Onumah et al, 2022;Pauw, 2022;Ragasa and Chapoto, 2017). National food and agriculture policy interventions directed at meeting the ambitious targets for local rice output have focused on facilitating access to farm inputs, mainly improved seed and fertilizers (Pauw, 2022;Tanko et al, 2019;Zakaria et al, 2021). Rice research in Ghana is, therefore, skewed towards seed improvement interventions aimed at enhancing yield and pest/disease resistance (Abebrese et al, 2019;Fordjour et al, 2020;Tawiah et al, 2022).…”

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Survey of rice (Oryza sativaL.) production ecosystems in northern Ghana confirms low risk of exposure to potential toxic elements from local grain consumption

Adomako

Aboagye-Ghunney

Owusu

2023

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Expanding local rice production to meet consumer demand is a priority action under the Government of Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs initiative. While studies on yield-enhancing interventions including seed improvement and fertilizer management abound, fewer studies focus on food safety issues such as the potential toxic element status of the production ecosystems. This study was, therefore, conducted to bridge the knowledge gap. Chemical analyses were conducted on water, soil and rice grain samples from rainfed upland, rainfed lowland and irrigated lowland rice ecosystems in the Northern and Upper East regions of the country. Statistical analysis of the data showed that soil and rice grain arsenic concentrations were significantly higher (P < 0.001) in the Upper East region. In the Northern region, mean cadmium concentration in rice grains from the irrigated lowland fields (0.023 ± 0.003 mg/kg) was significantly higher than in grains from the rainfed fields. All recorded concentrations of rice grain arsenic, cadmium and lead were, however, within permissible limits, indicating a low risk of dietary exposure. The observed differences in concentrations within and between regions suggest that soil texture and other geogenic factors could influence the potential toxic element status of the rice production ecosystems. Regular monitoring is, therefore, recommended to maintain the safety of Ghana’s locally produced rice for human consumption.

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“…These conditions in turn depend on a multiplicity of economic, social, environmental, and psychological factors, which vary across farmers and across regions (Chavas and Nauges 2020). An abundant strand of literature consists in micro-level studies aiming to identify and prioritize the factors explaining adoption, with results varying according to contexts (Doss 2006;Okello et al 2019;Zakaria et al 2021).…”

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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions

Kapgen

Roudart²

2022

Eur J Dev Res

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In spite of decades of research, the complexity of new technology uptake by smallholder farmers in the context of development interventions is still little understood. In order to unravel the motives for, and barriers to, technology adoption, we propose a multidisciplinary qualitative framework that expands the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework with the agronomic Agrarian system approach and the Development anthropology-based ECRIS (Rapid Collective Inquiry for the Identification of Conflicts and Strategic Groups) approach. Such a framework allows to analyze smallholder farmers' livelihoods, agricultural activities from an ecological cum technical cum economic point of view, and social learning processes involving power relationships. Its use is exemplified by studying the adoption of stone bunds in an agroecological development program in Burkina Faso. Many farmers cannot adopt this technology fully because of agricultural production system or livelihood shaped barriers, and because of power relationships bearing on the technology uptake process. KeywordsAnalytical framework • Innovation adoption • Agroecology • Burkina Faso • Farmer groups • Farming system • Power asymmetry • Social learning Résumé Malgré des décennies de recherche, la complexité de l'adoption de nouvelles technologies par les petits exploitants agricoles dans le cadre d'interventions de développement est encore mal comprise. Afin d'appréhender les motivations et les obstacles liés à l'adoption de technologie, nous proposons un cadre d'analyse qualitatif pluridisci-* Diane Kapgen

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Beyond Participation: The Effect of Fertilizer Subsidy on the Adoption of Certified Seeds Among Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana

Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana

Survey of rice (Oryza sativaL.) production ecosystems in northern Ghana confirms low risk of exposure to potential toxic elements from local grain consumption

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions

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