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Adoption of modern agricultural production technologies by farm households in Ghana: what factors influence their decisions?

Akudugu, Mamudu Abunga; Guo, Emelia; Dadzie, Samuel Kwesi (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Low adoption of modern agricultural production technologies amongst farmers in Ghana has been identified as one of the main reasons for the low agricultural productivity in the country. This paper examines the factors ...
Alternative approaches to technical efficiency estimation in the stochastic frontier model

Acquah, H. D.; Onumah, E. E. (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

Estimating the stochastic frontier model and calculating technical efficiency of decision making units are of great importance in applied production economic works. This paper estimates technical efficiency from the ...
Alternative livelihood support for reducing poverty: snail project for kwaprow community in Cape Coast

Tham-Agyekum, Enoch Kwame; Okorley, Ernest L.; Amamoo, Frank A. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

The critical importance of employment for sustained poverty reduction and curbing ruralurban migration necessitated this action research. It was embarked to introduce snail farming as alternative livelihood support for ...
Analysis of the partnership between the university of cape coast, ministry of food and agriculture, and gtz in an integrated crop protection project in Brong Ahafo region of Ghana

Annor-Frempong, Festus; Zinnah, Moses M.; Akuamoah-Boateng, Samuel (University of Cape Coast, 2002)

This paper presents a study that analysed the partnership between the University of Cape Coast, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) in the Integrated Crop Protection (ICP) Project in ...
Application of non-thermal pretreatment techniques on agricultural products prior to drying: a review

Osae, Richard; Essilfie, Gloria; Alolga, Raphael N; Akaba, Selorm; Song, Xiaoqian; Owusu-Ansah, Patrick; Zhou, Cunshan (University of Cape Coast, 2020-02-17)

Most agricultural crops contain high moisture content (80–95% wet basis (wb)) which makes them very susceptible to microbial damage leading to shorter shelf-life and high postharvest losses. The high perishability of these ...
An application of the von cramon-taubadel and loy error correction models in analyzing asymmetric adjustment between retail and wholesale maize prices in Ghana

Acquah, Henry De-graft; Dadzie, Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah (University of Cape Coast, 2020-02)

Previous studies analyzing asymmetric price transmission have been based on an econometric specification that is shown to be inconsistent with cointegration. This study draws on the concept of cointegration to implement ...
An application to ghanaian maize farms.

Acquah, Henry De-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

This paper introduces the rank-based estimation method to modelling the Cobb-Douglas production function as an alternative to the least squares approach. The intent is to demonstrate how a nonparametric regression based ...
An assessment of farmers perception and adaptation strategies to climate change in Beposo, Ghana

Acquah, Henry de-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2011-11)

This study analyses farmers’ perception on climate change, their adaptation strategies in response to climate change and barriers to the adaptation process. A survey of 100 randomly sampled farmers was conducted using a ...
Attitudes toward risk and coping responses: the case of food crop farmers at Agona Duakwa in Agona east district of Ghana

Dadzie, Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah; Acquah, Henry De-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Ascertaining the attitude of farmers toward risk is an important first step in understanding their behaviour and coping strategies they normally adopt to mitigate the effects of risk they constantly face within the ...
B2b e-commerce adoption amongst manufacturing smes: evidence from Ghana

Ocloo, Chosniel Elikem; Xuhua, Hu; Akaba, Selorm; Addai, Michael; Worwui-Brown, David; Spio-Kwofie, Adelaide (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Electronic commerce (EC) has considerable potential to nurture the growth of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) in developed and developing nations alike. However, e-commerce growths among SMEs in developing countries ...
B2B e-commerce adoption levels; SMEs; TOE framework; partial least squares; Ghana

Ocloo, Chosniel Elikem; Xuhua, Hu; Akaba, Selorm; Shi, Junguo; Worwui-Brown, David Kwaku (University of Cape Coast, 2020-07-12)

This research examines the relationships between technological, organizational, and environmental (TOE) factors on different levels of B2B e-commerce adoption. A survey of 315 Ghanaian manufacturing SMEs was validated and ...
Bayesian logistic regression modelling via markov chain monte carlo algorithm

Acquah, Henry de-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2013-04)

This paper introduces Bayesian analysis and demonstrates its application to parameter estimation of the logistic regression via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. The Bayesian logistic regression estimation is ...
A bootstrap approach to evaluating the performance of akaike information criterion (aic) and bayesian information criterion (bic) in selection of an asymmetric price relationship

Acquah, Henry de-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

This study addresses the problem of model selection in asymmetric price transmission models by combining the use of bootstrap methods with information theoretic selection criteria. Subsequently, parametric bootstrap technique ...
A bootstrap approach to evaluating the power of the houck’s test for asymmetry

Henry de-Graft, Acquah (University of Cape Coast, 2013-02)

The power of the conventional Houck’s model of asymmetry is examined via parametric bootstrap simulation. The results of the bootstrap simulations indicate that the Houck’s model has low power in rejecting the null of ...
A bootstrap approach to testing for symmetry in the granger and lee asymmetric error correction model

Acquah, Henry De-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2012-10-11)

The power of the Granger and Lee (1989) model of asymmetry is examined via bootstrap simulation. The results of the bootstrap simulation indicate that the Granger and Lee model has low power in rejecting the null hypothesis ...
Cassava price volatility: evidence from Ghana

Anakpo, Godfred; Acquah, Henry De-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2016-12-05)

Recent years have witnessed a sharp increase in many commodity prices in general. This study is focused on examining cassava price and its volatility in the Volta region of Ghana. Secondary data was collected on cassava ...
Choice of rice production practices in Ghana: a comparison of willingness to pay and preference space estimates

Coffie, Rebecca Owusu; Burton, Michael P.; Gibson, Fiona L.; Hailu, Atakelty (univers, 2016)

Rice has been identified as an important food security crop in Ghana. However, there is a production deficit and new technologies to reduce the deficit are not widely adopted. Although poor adoption by farmers’ is often ...
Choosing concepts and measurements of poverty: a comparison of three major poverty approaches

Kwadzo, Moses (University of Cape Coast, 2015-07-09)

A comparative analysis of different poverty measures, particularly across studies that use different conceptualizations and measurements of poverty, is very valuable. In highlighting this fact, this article compares three ...
Comparison of akaike information criterion (aic) and bayesian information criterion (bic) in selection of an asymmetric price relationship

Acquah, Henry De-Graft (University of Cape Coast, 2010)

Information criteria provide an attractive basis for model selection. However, little is understood about their relative performance in asymmetric price transmission modelling framework. To explore this issue, this ...
A comparison of bootstrap and monte carlo approaches to testing for symmetry in the granger and lee error correction model

Henry de-Graft, Acquah (University of Cape Coast, 2013-05)

In this paper, I investigate the power of the Granger and Lee model of asymmetry via bootstrap and Monte Carlo techniques. The simulation results indicate that sample size, level of asymmetry and the amount of noise in ...

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