To Ban or Not to Ban? Implications of the Recent Ban on Poultry Imports by Ghana

Omid Zamani, Craig Chibanda and Janine Pelikan

No 316719, 61st Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 22-24, 2021 from German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA)

Abstract: Due to the Avian Influenza outbreak in Europe and Russia, Ghana has imposed an import ban on affected countries. This paper analyses the potential effects of this partial ban on Ghanaian chicken producers and agricultural trade. Due to the growing support for a total ban on poultry imports by various value chain actors, we also analyse the impact of a complete ban on Ghana's poultry imports. We apply an integrated method covering General Equilibrium and typical farm analysis. Our findings show that the partial ban has a lower effect on trade and the whole economy compared with the total ban. Nevertheless, the effect of a total ban on domestic producers is more significant. Moreover, a total import ban increases production mainly for the large-scale integrated farms in Ghana.

Keywords: International Relations/Trade; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2021-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.316719

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