Constraints to Guinea fowl production in northern Ghana: A case study of the Damongo area

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
GA Teye ◽  
M Adam
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Fowl ◽  
Northern Ghana

Identification and prioritization of farmers' innovations in northern Ghana

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 537-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justice A. Tambo ◽  
Tobias Wünscher
Keyword(s):  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Plant Residues ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Innovation Contest ◽  
Scientific Validation ◽  
Livestock Diseases

AbstractFarmers are innovators and experimenters and not just adopters of introduced technologies. The innovations developed by farmers could complement the highly promoted externally driven technologies in addressing the numerous challenges facing agriculture. The aim of this paper was to identify outstanding innovations developed by smallholder farmers in northern Ghana, and prioritize the high potential ones for further scientific validation or dissemination. Using an innovation contest that rewards farmers' creativity, we identified 29 promising innovations. Additionally, 19 innovations were scouted through a household survey. The innovations are largely extensive modifications of existing practices or combinations of different known practices in unique ways to save costs or to address crop and livestock production constraints. While some of the identified innovations can be recommended or disseminated to other farmers, most of them may require further validation or research. However, validating all of these innovations will be very expensive and time-consuming. We propose the multi-criteria decision-making analysis (MCDM) as a simple method to prioritize farmers' innovations. Using this method, we find that among the most promising innovations are those involving the control of weeds, pests and diseases using plant residues and extracts, and the treatment of livestock diseases using ethnoveterinary medicines. We briefly explain the six most highly ranked innovations. This case study from northern Ghana provides further proof that smallholder farmers develop diverse and spectacular innovations to address the myriad challenges they face, and these need to be recognized and promoted. We also conclude that contest and MCDM are useful methods that can be applied in unearthing and prioritizing farmer innovations, respectively.

scholarly journals Phenotypic diversity, major genes and production potential of local chickens and guinea fowl in Tamale, northern Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1372-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mensah Brown ◽  
Benjamin Alenyorege ◽  
Gabriel Ayum Teye ◽  
Regina Roessler
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Diversity ◽  
Guinea Fowl ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
Major Genes ◽  
Local Chickens

scholarly journals Landscape Changes and Fragmentation Analysis in a Guinea Savannah Ecosystem: Case study of Talensi and Nabdam Districts of the Upper East region, Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Ampofo ◽  
Isaac Sackey ◽  
Boateng Ampadu
Keyword(s):  
Human Interaction ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Landcover Change ◽  
East Region ◽  
Upper East Region ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Categorical Maps ◽  
Landsat Satellite

Landcover change is an observed natural change dynamics at both the local and regional levels. However, its scales are exacerbated by human interaction with its natural environment. The study examines these spatio-temporal changes in landcover and the level to which the change is accompanied by fragmentation of the identifiable cover types in the Talensi and Nabdam districts in Northern Ghana. The research uses digital classification of Landsat satellite imagery for 1999 and 2007 to produce the cover types which results in good accuracy levels of 66.39% and 63.03% respectively. Fragmentation analysis of the landscape was computed using FRAGSTATS® software for categorical maps obtained from the classified landcover maps for the two years. All cover types increased marginally. However, Bare areas decreased by as much as 17.17% and that of water decreased from 3% to 1%. The changing landscape involving conversions within and among various cover types is accompanied by fragmentation in all classes but more pronounced in the Bare class. The Bare class type which has more patches corresponds to the class with increased cover size and rather strangely decreases in the mean path size.

scholarly journals Trends and risk factors associated with stillbirths: A case study of the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital in Northern Ghana

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e0229013
Author(s):  
Engelbert A. Nonterah ◽  
Isaiah A. Agorinya ◽  
Edmund W. Kanmiki ◽  
Juliana Kagura ◽  
Mariatu Tamimu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Memorial Hospital ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Factors Associated

scholarly journals Geophysical borehole logging for control of driller’s records: hydrogeological case study from Voltaian sedimentary rocks in northern Ghana

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Agyekum ◽  
Kurt Klitten ◽  
Thomas Armah ◽  
Bruce Banoeng-Yakubo ◽  
Edmund Okoe Amartey
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Borehole Logging

scholarly journals Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge of the Plants of Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Asase ◽  
A. Townsend Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Distance ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Biodiversity Informatics ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Herbarium Data ◽  
Research Grade ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Providing comprehensive, informative, primary, research-grade biodiversity information represents an important focus of biodiversity informatics initiatives. Recent efforts within Ghana have digitized >90% of primary biodiversity data records associated with specimen sheets in Ghanaian herbaria; additional herbarium data are available from other institutions via biodiversity informatics initiatives such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. However, data on the plants of Ghana have not as yet been integrated and assessed to establish how complete site inventories are, so that appropriate levels of confidence can be applied. In this study, we assessed inventory completeness and identified gaps in current Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK) of the plants of Ghana, to prioritize areas for future surveys and inventories. We evaluated the completeness of inventories at ½° spatial resolution using statistics that summarize inventory completeness, and characterized gaps in coverage in terms of geographic distance and climatic difference from well-documented sites across the country. The southwestern and southeastern parts of the country held many well-known grid cells; the largest spatial gaps were found in central and northern parts of the country. Climatic difference showed contrasting patterns, with a dramatic gap in coverage in central-northern Ghana. This study provides a detailed case study of how to prioritize for new botanical surveys and inventories based on existing DAK.

scholarly journals Absence of Effects of Herbicides Use on Yam Rots: A Case Study in Wulensi, Ghana

Agriculture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abukari Wumbei ◽  
Judith Kania Asibi Bawa ◽  
Mamudu Abunga Akudugu ◽  
Pieter Spanoghe
Keyword(s):  
Weed Control ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
The Public ◽  
Field Level ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Traditional Area

Yam farmers in Ghana have, over the years, used herbicides for weed control, particularly glyphosate. Although this has been helpful to them, there are complaints and concerns, among the yam farmers and a section of the public, that the yam tuber rots easily under the use of herbicides. This study, therefore, was set up at the field level to investigate the possibility of herbicides use causing yam rot. Two yam varieties, “laribako” and “olodo”, were grown under the conditions of chemical weed control (use of glyphosate) and manual weed control in three replicate sites in Wulensi in the Nanumba traditional area of northern Ghana. The study revealed that there was no difference in rots between herbicide treated yams and manually weeded yams, but that there was a difference in rots between “laribako” and “olodo” yam varieties. The results also showed that there was no difference in yield between herbicide treated yams and manually weeded yams. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that, there was no difference in yam rot and yield between herbicides treated and manually weeded yams, but “laribako” was more susceptible to rot than “olodo”.

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