Food and Agriculture

The government of Ghana introduced the Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP) in 2008, a commodity value chain approach to agricultural transformation to help address severe poverty in Northern Ghana. Philip Duku Osei (UBIDS) and co-authors, advised by Vincent Amanor-Boadu (Kansas State University), are investigating the impact of the NRGP on smallholder farmers’ productivity, income, and food security using a quasi-experimental design. Impact of Northern Rural Growth Program on Smallholder Farmer Welfare in Ghana – CEGA