Rural households living in tropical ecosystems depend heavily on forest trees for valuable nontimber forest products that are, however, undergoing unsustainable harvesting. This study assessed early survival and growth of ...

Nauclea diderrichii and Pericopsis elata are valuable timber species which are attacked by Orygmophora mediofoveata and Lamprosema lateritialis respectively in plantations. This study was carried out to evaluate the effects ...

Bosomtwe Lake is a freshwater lake in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, and is the habitat for many native plant and animal species. It is also a place for tourism and, therefore, the water quality and health status of the lake ...

Quantitative information on soil loss is relevant for devising soil conservation and crop management strategies to ensure sustainable fertility management and crop production. Estimations from runoff/erosion plots are ...

Treatment of healthcare waste either by incinerating or open burning in a pit produces bottom ashes which contains heavy metals and other chemicals which are toxic, persistent and accumulate in the food chain resulting in ...

The policy document – National Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Security Action Plan of Ghana (2016-2020) – provides the implementation framework for an effective development of climate-smart agriculture in the ground. ...

Women, more than men, are faced with difficulties in accessing financial services. Women in developing countries in particular, face cultural barriers that prevent them from access to credit for productive ventures and are ...

Ghana’s agriculture sector accounts for 35 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and nearly two thirds (60 percent) of the employment (Breisinger et al. 2011). Ghana is one of the top five performers in ...

Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) are consideredto be engines of economic growth worldwide. Their efficiencyand competitiveness is critical to the creation of employment,income generation and poverty reduction and thereby ...

For countries at the bottom of the development pyramid, technological innovation is decisive for industrialisation and catch-up. Technological innovation has, however, been traditionally concentrated in a few developed ...