2007 Ghana Strategy Forum Proceedings

The proceedings of the November 2007 Ghana Strategy Forum “The Role of Agriculture in Achieving Middle Income Status” are now available.

(Note: the proceedings document contains links to the other workshop files. All of the files should be downloaded to the same folder for the links to work properly.)

Proceedings

Agenda

Participants

Presentations:

Growth, Poverty and Agriculture in Africa: Linkages and Policy (Joachim von Braun, IFPRI)

Aiming for Middle Income Country Status: What are the Growth Options? (Xinshen Diao, IFPRI)

Public Agriculture Investments to Support MIC (Sam Benin, IFPRI)

Service Delivery and Accountability (Regina Birner, IFPRI)

Fiscal Decentralisation: What Role Could Local Government Finances Play for Agriculture? (Tewodaj Mogues, IFPRI)

Targeting Smallholders for Agricultural Growth in Ghana (Jordan Chamberlin, IFPRI)

Servicing Smallholders for Market Access (Dr. Ramatu Al-Hassan, University of Ghana)

Drivers of Productivity Growth in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector (Marcella Vigneri, ODI)

Concluding Remarks and Way Forward (Shenggen Fan/Shashi Kolavalli, IFPRI)