Widespread rural poverty in Africa and the success of Asia's Green Revolution suggest that
agriculture is a key sector for African development. However, in response to recent …

Assembling Export Markets explores the new 'frontier regions' of the global fresh produce
market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Represents a major and …

Background In spite of global decline in under-five mortality, the goal of achieving MDG 4
still remains largely unattained in low and middle income countries as the year 2015 closes …

This paper looks at the food security situation in three most deprived and poverty-stricken
regions in the Northern parts of Ghana and examines how farmer households cope during …

Background During the 1990s, researchers at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in
northern Ghana developed a highly successful community health program. The keystone of …

Page 1 INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE sustainable solutions for
ending hunger and poverty IFPRIⓇ Supported by the CGIAR IFPRI Discussion Paper 00784 …

This article critically reflects on why, in many rural stretches of sub-Saharan Africa, scores of
people engage in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activity–low-tech, labour-intensive …

An emerging orthodoxy suggests that agriculture is the key to addressing the youth
employment challenge in Africa. The analysis that informs this orthodoxy identifies a number …

Why do spatial inequalities emerge and persist? After showing that existing explanations of
spatial inequality are at best partial, this article argues that persistent spatial development …

This paper demonstrates how the global commodity chain approach has mutated from a
critical tool for studying the production of inequality in the global economy to an instrument of …