This book investigates how the changed agricultural policy climate affected government policies in the nine countries studied already as part of the preceding project: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. By repeating the cross-sectional survey made in...

This chapter examines the role of infrastructure and institutions in agricultural diversification, food self-sufficiency and food security in Ghana. Staple crops are cultivated by all farm households in the eight villages studied in 2002 and 2008. There has been little change in the production of...