Narh, Stephen

• Start Date: 2009/07/01
• End Date: N.D.
• University: University of Florida
• Degree: PhD

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Innovation

Enhancing the Peanut Value Chain, from Processing to Marketing of Peanuts and Peanut Products – Processing

Our goal is to enhance incomes and employment opportunities of people through a strategy of improving agricultural producers’ and processors’ access to markets and stimulating new […]

• Start Date: 2009/06/01
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: UGA127
• Lead University: University of Georgia

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Enhancing the peanut value chain, from processing to marketing peanuts and peanut products

This project’s goals include income enhancement along the peanut value chain, job creation through peanut processing, market access for producers and stimulation of new market demand, […]

• Start Date: 2009/06/01
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: UGA165
• Lead University: University of Georgia

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Enhancing the peanut value chain, from processing to marketing peanuts and peanut products – Product Development

This project seeks to enhance incomes and employment opportunities of people through a strategy of improving small agricultural producers’ access to markets and stimulating new market […]

• Start Date: 2009/06/01
• End Date: 2012
• Project Code: UGA166
• Lead University: University of Georgia

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Ashong, Joseph

• Start Date: 2009/01/01
• End Date: 2011/08/01
• University: Cornell University
• Degree: PhD

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Innovation

Factors influencing market participants decision to sort groundnuts along the marketing chain in Ghana

Abstract: Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important source of protein and fat in Ghana and other developing countries. However, peanut is often contaminated with aflatoxin […]

• Date of Publication: 2009
• Author(s): R.T. Awuah; S. C. Fialor; A.D. Binns; J. Kagochi; C. M. Jolly
• Type of Document: Scholarly Article

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Aflatoxin exposure decreases serum levels of vitamins A & E in Ghanaians

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• Date of Publication: 2009
• Author(s): L. Tang; L. Xu; E. Afriyie-Gyawu; W. Liu; P. Wang; Y. Tang; Z. Wang; H.J. Huebner; N-A. Ankrah; D. Ofori-adjei; J.H. Williams; J-S. Wang; T.D. Phillips
• Type of Document: Scholarly Article

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Health and Nutrition

Groundnut yield response and economic benefits of fungicide and phosphorus application in farmer-managed trials in Northern Ghana

Abstract: Prior on-station research showed that sowing dates, sowing density and applications of fungicide and phosphorus (P) increased groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) pod yield by 60

• Date of Publication: 2009
• Author(s): J.B. Naab; S. S. Seini; K. O. Gyasi; G. Y. Mahama; P. V. V. Prasad; K. J. Boote; J. W. Jones
• Type of Document: Scholarly Article

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Productivity

PAH exposure in a Ghanaian Population at High Risk for Aflatoxicosis

Abstract: It was postulated that a population in sub-Saharan Africa, known to be at high risk for aflatoxicosis due to frequent ingestion of aflatoxin (AF)-contaminated foods […]

• Date of Publication: 2009
• Author(s): N.M. Johnson; E. Afriyie-Gyawu; H.J. Huebner; A. Marroquin-Cardona; L. Tang; L. Xu; N-A. Ankrah; D. Ofori-Adjei; P.E. Jolly; J.H. Williams; J-S. Wang; T.D. Phillips
• Type of Document: Scholarly Article

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Health and Nutrition

Prevalence and factors associated with aflatoxin contamination of peanuts from Western Kenya

Abstract: Aflatoxin contamination of peanuts poses a risk to human health and has been identified as a major constraint to trade in eastern Africa. A survey […]

• Date of Publication: 2009
• Author(s): C.K. Mutegi; H. Ngugi, et al
• Type of Document: Scholarly Article

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Health and Nutrition