Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana

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dc.creatorJayne, Thomas S.
dc.creatorKolavalli, Shashidhara
dc.creatorDebrah, Kofi
dc.creatorAriga, Joshua
dc.creatorBrunache, Pierre
dc.creatorKabaghe, Chance
dc.creatorNunez-Rodriguez, Walter
dc.creatorOwusu Baah, Kwaku
dc.creatorBationo, Andre A.
dc.creatorHuising, Elzo Jeroen
dc.creatorLambrecht, Isabel B.
dc.creatorDiao, Xinshen
dc.creatorYeboah, Felix K.
dc.creatorBenin, Samuel
dc.creatorAndam, Kwaw S.
dc.date2015-12-14
dc.date2024-08-01T02:52:01Z
dc.date2024-08-01T02:52:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:42:59Z
dc.descriptionMost efforts to raise fertilizer use in SSA over the past decade have focused on fertilizer subsidies and targeted credit programmes with hopes that these programmes could later be withdrawn once the profitability of fertilizer use has been made clear to adopting farmers and once they have become sufficiently capitalized to be able to afford fertilizer on their own. This line of reasoning under-emphasizes the evidence that many smallholder farmers obtain very low crop response rates to inorganic fertilizer application and hence cannot use it profitably at full market prices. A central hypothesis of this study is that Ghanaian farmers will demand increasing quantities of fertilizer when they can utilize it more profitably, and that doing so will require improved agronomic and soil management practices that enable farmers to achieve higher crop response rates to fertilizer application. The study’s findings are based on reviews of existing studies from Ghana and the wider region, key informant interviews of cocoa and maize farmers, international and local scientists, fertilizer distribution companies and government officials.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150479
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/112605
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherUnited States Agency for International Development
dc.publisherAfrica Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership
dc.publisherInnovation Lab for Food Security Policy
dc.publisherMichigan State University
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceJayne, Thomas; et al. 2015. Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana. International Food Policy Research Institute; US Agency for International Development (USAID), Feed the Future Program; Africa Fertilizer and Agrobusiness Partnership (AFAP); Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy (ILFSP); and Michigan State University. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150479
dc.subjectfertilizers
dc.subjectagricultural research
dc.subjectsoil fertility
dc.subjectextension activities
dc.subjectfarm inputs
dc.subjectsoil management
dc.subjectagricultural development
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectsubsidies
dc.titleTowards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana
dc.typeReport

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