Ghana

ILRI Projects in Ghana

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

Jan 2010May 2013

Volta Basin Development Challenge: integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agro-ecosystems

Given the economic, social and environmental vulnerability due to high water scarcity and variability in the basin, improvements in rainwater management are needed for ensuring sustainable and equitable benefits. This project intends to identify, evaluate, adapt, and disseminate best-fit integrated...

ILRI News in Ghana

ILRI News

15 Mar 2022

Celebrating International Women's Day with Alessandra Galiè

This blog was first published by Cambridge Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre profiling female researchers and academics involved in agriculture/food security every year for International Women's Day . To celebrate the 2022 International Women's Day theme of promoting women's...

Karen Hlaba CambPlants Administrator(Cambridge Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre)

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

15 Mar 2022

African Chicken Genetic Gains transforms into Tropical Poultry Genetic Solutions to build on outcomes and scale into new countries

In sub-Saharan Africa, chicken production is integral in nearly all poor rural smallholder households, account ing for about 80% of the poultry flock in the region (Akinola and Essien 2011, FAO 2020 ). For smallholder chicken farmers, many of whom are women, chicken production offers numerous...

Mwihaki MundiaCommunications Officer - BecA

Africa RISING feed

04 Oct 2021

No technician? No problem: Africa RISING releases 35 vernacular DIY videos on maintenance of maize shelling machines for use by farmers in Ghana

It is estimated that smallholder farmers in northern Ghana face postharvest losses ranging between 30–50% of the yields obtained in each cropping cycle. While northern Ghana has a great potential to be a breadbasket region for the country, with almost all crops grown in the country capable of being...

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Publications in Ghana

Journal Article

Published2022

Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from Peste des Petits Ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana

Journal Article

Published2021

Examining the synergistic effect of cocoa-plantain intercropping system on gross margin: A system dynamics modelling approach

Journal Article

Published2020

Row spacing of annual peanut (Arachis Hypogaea l.) and the conservation of peanut haulm as hay or silage: Effects on nutritive value and growth performance of sheep

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Ghana

ILRI Projects in Ghana

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Volta Basin Development Challenge: integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agro-ecosystems

ILRI News in Ghana

Celebrating International Women's Day with Alessandra Galiè

African Chicken Genetic Gains transforms into Tropical Poultry Genetic Solutions to build on outcomes and scale into new countries

No technician? No problem: Africa RISING releases 35 vernacular DIY videos on maintenance of maize shelling machines for use by farmers in Ghana

Publications in Ghana

Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from Peste des Petits Ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana

Editorial: Ensuring animal health and other services for efficient and inclusive livestock value chains in LMICs

Small farms and development in sub‑Saharan Africa: farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?

Productivity nutritive value and economic potential of irrigatedf odder in two regions of Ghana

Examining the synergistic effect of cocoa-plantain intercropping system on gross margin: A system dynamics modelling approach

Row spacing of annual peanut (Arachis Hypogaea l.) and the conservation of peanut haulm as hay or silage: Effects on nutritive value and growth performance of sheep

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