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The Drivers of Medium-Scale Farms and the Emerging Synergies and Contradictions Among Socially-Differentiated Farmers in Northern Ghana

Yaro, Joseph ; Wahab, Ibrahim LU ; Afful-Mensah, Gloria and Awen-Nam, Michael Ben (2021) In APRA Working Papers 71(71).
Abstract
Since the turn of the century, agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has been undergoing rapid transformation. Ghana is experiencing an agrarian revolution with increasing farmland sizes, increased mechanisation of production and external input usage, and high levels of commercialisation. In this paper we show the growth of farm sizes, the major drivers of increasing farm sizes, and emerging relations between different scales of farmers. The paper discusses the synergies and contradictions emerging from the processes of agricultural commercialisation in the context of rising farmland sizes and the implications for different social groups.
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medium-scale farms, Northern Ghana, agricultural transformation, commercialisation
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APRA Working Papers
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71
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71
pages
38 pages
publisher
Future Agricultures Consortium
ISBN
978-1-78118-861-3
DOI
10.19088/APRA.2021.030
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English
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  author       = {{Yaro, Joseph and Wahab, Ibrahim and Afful-Mensah, Gloria and Awen-Nam, Michael Ben}},
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  publisher    = {{Future Agricultures Consortium}},
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  title        = {{The Drivers of Medium-Scale Farms and the Emerging Synergies and Contradictions Among Socially-Differentiated Farmers in Northern Ghana}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/APRA.2021.030}},
  doi          = {{10.19088/APRA.2021.030}},
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