Fred Mawunyo Dzanku
Biographic Data
| ID | 228704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred Mawunyo Dzanku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred Mawunyo |
| FAMILY NAME | Dzanku |
| SIGNATURE | DZANKU F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2271-7876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Changes in population literacy and numeracy in Ghana after three decades of free basic education
Global syndrome at the local level
Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare
This paper uses panel data and qualitative interviews from southwestern Ghana to analyse farmers' heterogeneous oil palm marketing decisions and the effect on household welfare. We show that despite the supposed benefits that smallholders could derive from participation in global agribusiness value chains via formal contracts, such arrangements are rare although two of Ghana's 'big four' industrial oil palm companies are located in the study area…
A review of machine learning and satellite imagery for poverty prediction
The field of artificial intelligence is seeing the increased application of satellite imagery to analyse poverty in its various manifestations. This nascent but rapidly growing intersection of scholarship holds the potential to help us better understand poverty by leveraging big data and recent advances in machine vision. In this study, we statistically analyse the literature in the expanding field of welfare and poverty predictions from the comb…
Implications of socioeconomic change for agrarian land and labour relations in rural Ghana
Analysis of socioeconomic change and effects on agrarian land and labour relations in Ghana. • Increasing rates of youth schooling in family farm households. • Declining reciprocity offering of agrarian labour. • Qualitative and quantitative evidence shows high opportunity costs of youth schooling. • Opportunity cost of youth schooling similar for women and men
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation
Using a comparative mixed methods approach involving two districts each in Southern and Northern Ghana, this article addresses the question: under what conditions, and at what scale does smallholder agricultural commercialisation promote or hinder food security? Specifically, it presents an analysis of how gender and spatial inequalities in resource control determine differential capacities to commercialise and the implications of agricultural co…
Poverty Reduction and Economic Livelihood Mobility in Rural Sub‐saharan Africa
This article uses household panel data for six countries in rural sub‐Saharan Africa to study the dynamics of off‐farm diversification rather than the ‘static’ analyses common in the related literature. It identifies drivers of economic livelihood mobility and implications for poverty reduction. The results show that on‐farm specialization imposes considerable welfare costs on rural households. In most of the countries, income poverty reduction w…
The gender and geography of rural off-farm employment and input intensification in five sub-Saharan African countries
Food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Household Welfare Effects of Agricultural Productivity
Although poverty reduction policies in developing countries hinge on the link between smallholder productivity and welfare, micro level empirical evidence on this is limited in sub-Saharan Africa and neglects the multidimensionality of welfare. This article contributes through investigating the productivity-poverty relationship using a number of welfare measures with a three-period panel dataset for Ghana. The findings are that welfare is increas…
Transient rural livelihoods and poverty in Ghana
Household-specific food price differentials and high-value crop production in rural Ghana
Yield Gap-Based Poverty Gaps in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Transient rural livelihoods and poverty in Ghana
Yield Gap-Based Poverty Gaps in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation
Using a comparative mixed methods approach involving two districts each in Southern and Northern Ghana, this article addresses the question: under what conditions, and at what scale does smallholder agricultural commercialisation promote or hinder food security? Specifically, it presents an analysis of how gender and spatial inequalities in resource control determine differential capacities to commercialise and the implications of agricultural co…
Implications of socioeconomic change for agrarian land and labour relations in rural Ghana
Analysis of socioeconomic change and effects on agrarian land and labour relations in Ghana. • Increasing rates of youth schooling in family farm households. • Declining reciprocity offering of agrarian labour. • Qualitative and quantitative evidence shows high opportunity costs of youth schooling. • Opportunity cost of youth schooling similar for women and men
Yield Gap-Based Poverty Gaps in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Household Welfare Effects of Agricultural Productivity
Although poverty reduction policies in developing countries hinge on the link between smallholder productivity and welfare, micro level empirical evidence on this is limited in sub-Saharan Africa and neglects the multidimensionality of welfare. This article contributes through investigating the productivity-poverty relationship using a number of welfare measures with a three-period panel dataset for Ghana. The findings are that welfare is increas…
Transient rural livelihoods and poverty in Ghana
Household-specific food price differentials and high-value crop production in rural Ghana
The gender and geography of rural off-farm employment and input intensification in five sub-Saharan African countries
Food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Poverty Reduction and Economic Livelihood Mobility in Rural Sub‐saharan Africa
This article uses household panel data for six countries in rural sub‐Saharan Africa to study the dynamics of off‐farm diversification rather than the ‘static’ analyses common in the related literature. It identifies drivers of economic livelihood mobility and implications for poverty reduction. The results show that on‐farm specialization imposes considerable welfare costs on rural households. In most of the countries, income poverty reduction w…
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation
Using a comparative mixed methods approach involving two districts each in Southern and Northern Ghana, this article addresses the question: under what conditions, and at what scale does smallholder agricultural commercialisation promote or hinder food security? Specifically, it presents an analysis of how gender and spatial inequalities in resource control determine differential capacities to commercialise and the implications of agricultural co…
Implications of socioeconomic change for agrarian land and labour relations in rural Ghana
Analysis of socioeconomic change and effects on agrarian land and labour relations in Ghana. • Increasing rates of youth schooling in family farm households. • Declining reciprocity offering of agrarian labour. • Qualitative and quantitative evidence shows high opportunity costs of youth schooling. • Opportunity cost of youth schooling similar for women and men
A review of machine learning and satellite imagery for poverty prediction
The field of artificial intelligence is seeing the increased application of satellite imagery to analyse poverty in its various manifestations. This nascent but rapidly growing intersection of scholarship holds the potential to help us better understand poverty by leveraging big data and recent advances in machine vision. In this study, we statistically analyse the literature in the expanding field of welfare and poverty predictions from the comb…
Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare
This paper uses panel data and qualitative interviews from southwestern Ghana to analyse farmers' heterogeneous oil palm marketing decisions and the effect on household welfare. We show that despite the supposed benefits that smallholders could derive from participation in global agribusiness value chains via formal contracts, such arrangements are rare although two of Ghana's 'big four' industrial oil palm companies are located in the study area…
Changes in population literacy and numeracy in Ghana after three decades of free basic education
Global syndrome at the local level
Economics (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (9 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Agricultural economics (6 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Poverty (5 works)