Agriculture is vital to the overall economic growth and development of Ghana. Traditionally, the sector has accounted for the largest share in Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Over the past decade, for example, the ...

The agricultural sector plays a decisive role in Ghana’s economy, employment, and food security. The study set out to assess the information needs of agricultural extension agents across all the agro-ecological zones ...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) hold tremendous potential for rural development in Ghana in the areas of agriculture, health, education and small scale industries. However, issues such as the availability ...

A citation analysis of dissertations accepted by the Department of Information Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, from 1998 to 2004, was performed with a view to ascertain patterns in the use of difrent types of ...

Effective access to public domain scientific knowledge is critical to a broad range of stakeholders and communities across Africa to develop and apply solutions for rural development and to improved rural livelihoods. ...

This article sheds light on the collection and use of data by libraries in sixteen countries across Africa. It highlights the challenges that librarians and library organizations face in gathering, analyzing, and presenting ...

In Ghana, an important vehicle for increasing agricultural productivity is the provision of relevant and current agricultural information on time and in the right format to stakeholders. This paper discusses the role that ...

This article shows how the food environment is changing in urban Ghana, focusing on foods hawked in the midst of heavy traffic on city streets. Various Ghanaian meals - both health-promoting foods made from natural ingredients ...

This paper assessed whether the public district hospitals in Ghana are technically efficient to meet the challenge of possible increase in health care demand by Ghanaians that might result from the introduction of the ...

The importance of tourism to the economic development of countries cannot be overemphasized. All activities involved in tourism are based on information, so it is largely an information product. In spite of the immense benefits ...