Ghana's commercial seed sector: New incentives or continued complacency?

Robert Tripp and Akwesi Mensah-Bonsu

No 32, GSSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This paper examines the current status and recent changes in Ghana’s commercial seed system for field crops. It includes a review of present performance and an examination of the factors that might influence the course of seed system develop-ment in the near future. The paper is timely because a number of changes in policies, regulations, responsibilities, and commercial interests mean that this could be a period of significant transition for Ghana’s seed sector, perhaps marking an end to the stagnation and complacency that have characterized the sector for the past several decades.

Keywords: seeds; markets; seed systems; private sector; agricultural policies; research and development; agricultural research; farm inputs; Ghana; Western Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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