The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is currently collaborating with SNV Netherlands Development Organization under the umbrella of its Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) in Kenya, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, and Indonesia. Within this research program, V4CP intended implementing a research project to better understand the nature and consequences of food losses in 12 districts spread across the 3 northern regions – Upper West, Northern and Upper East. This study envisioned to provide evidence about the extent of food losses for yam and groundnut in these selected districts of northern Ghana. The study sought to gauge crop losses, both in terms of quantities and economic value of quality deterioration. It also incorporated a value-chain approach and analysed losses that occur among farmers, middlemen, and processors. Within each of these nodes, the study intended to identify particular processes in which crop losses are prevalent. For the successful implementation of this project, ISSER provided the following services to IFPRI: design of a sampling framework for farmers, middlemen, and processors for selected crops in Northern Ghana; development of a field plan and a timeline for the collection of the primary survey-based data as well as the review of the survey; and the submission of a final dataset via surveycto.
Expected Duration: 5 months (December 2018 – April 2019)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Simon Bawakyillenuo
Co-Investigator: Prof. Felix Ankomah Asante