Cover_Rebuilding West Africas Food Potential

344 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential Minten, B., L. Randrianarison, and J. F.M. Swinnen. (2006). Spillovers from globaliz ...

Chapter 10. Comparative analysis of mango value chain models in Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana 345 Annex Schematic Representation ...

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Chapter 11 Oil palm industry growth in Africa: A value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana Kwabena Ofosu-BUDU and Daniel Bru ...

Table of Contents Introduction and motivation 349 Methodology and data collection 351 Significance of oil palm in Ghana and Wes ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 349 Introduction and motivation ...

350 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential favors large plantations for economies of scale, which raises the question of whethe ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 351 In areas where the crop grow ...

352 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential individual smallholder farmers, processors and marketers were interviewed in nine co ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 353 The industry provides income ...

354 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential The demand for oil palm derivatives in Ghana and the sub-region is shown in Table 1. ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 355 Table 2 shows an estimated s ...

356 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential Although they produce substantial amounts of palm oil, Ghana and the West Africa sub ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 357 Palm oil, which has seen a s ...

358 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential Figure 3. Volumes of Vegetable Oil Imports to Ghana, 2000-2010 0 10000000 20000000 3 ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 359 Oil palm production structu ...

360 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential The oil palm product value chain can be divided into three segments: value addition ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 361 estate. They are obliged to ...

362 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential Under the Corporate Village Enterprise Companies (COVE) scheme, for instance, land i ...

Chapter 11. Oil palm industry growth in Africa: a value chain and smallholders’ study for Ghana 363 GOPDC assists outgrowers in ...