Shea butter processing as an engine of poverty reduction in Northern Ghana: Case study of four communities in the Bolgatanga Municipality

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2014.8907" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2014.8907</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2014.8907" target="_blank" >10.5897/AJAR2014.8907</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Shea butter processing as an engine of poverty reduction in Northern Ghana: Case study of four communities in the Bolgatanga Municipality

Original language description

Peasant farming had been seen for many years as a means of fighting rural poverty in the Sub-Saharan zone of Africa. With the passing of time, new researches had shown that the notion is fading off since studies have established that only a small percentage of those farms have seen expansion and intensification leaving the rest stagnated with lowering productivity, decrease in size and low output. Alternative sources of rural income are therefore important to determine for specific locations. This paperlooks at the effects of shea butter processing on rural household income in four: communities in the Sumbrungu area of the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Regression analysis performed indicated that shea butter processing activity in the selected communities is a signification source of income as compared to the official minimum daily wage in Ghana.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GA - Agricultural economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

African Journal of Agricultural Research

ISSN

1991-637X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

43

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

3185-3190

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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