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)

The proceedings of the IFPRI-ODI Workshop “Production, Markets and the Future of Smallholders: the Role of Cocoa in Ghana” 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:

The role of cocoa in Ghana’s growth and Poverty Reduction (Clemens Breisinger, IFPRI)

Drivers of productivity growth in Ghana’s cocoa sector (Marcella Vigneri, ODI)

International perspectives on the cocoa sector: expansion or green and double green revolutions? (Francois Ruf, Cirad)

Cocobod strategy (Ebenezer Quartey, Research Department, Cocobod)

Cocoa production strategies and the conservation of globally significant rainforest remnants in Ghana (Jim Gockowski, STCP-IITA)

Marketing reforms in Ghana’s cocoa sector: Partial liberalisation, partial benefits? (Anna Laven, University of Amsterdam)

Ghana and the cocoa marketing dilemma: What has liberalisation without price
competition achieved? (Marcella Vigneri, ODI and Paulo Santos, University of Sydney)

2007 Ghana Strategy Forum briefs and presentations are now available on the IFPRI website.

GSSP background papers are now available. These papers contain preliminary material and research results from IFPRI and/or its partners in Ghana. They address subjects such as growth, agricultural productivity, regional inequality, smallholders, and public spending.

The papers may be downloaded from the GSSP website.

The 2005 Ghana SAM will be officially released on 15 November 2007. The SAM was a joint initiative between the Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) and IFPRI under GSSP. It is the first official SAM since 1993 for Ghana and the final version of an earlier and provisional SAM for 2004 jointly built by GSS and IFPRI. The update and extension was made possible by the release of new data, including the 2005/06 Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS5), the 2003 Industrial Survey, and revised agricultural data from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA).

The SAM and documentation may be downloaded from the IFPRI website.

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