JOURNAL OF BUSINESS DIVERSITY
Willingness of Rural and Peri-Urban Women Smallholder Farmers to Participate in Home-Grown School Feeding Farming Contracts in Ghana
Author(s): Georgette Owusu-Amankwah, Yoko Kusunose, Janet Tietyen Mullins, Nashiru Sulemana, Kamaldeen Yussif, Vivian Tackie-Ofosu
Citation: Georgette Owusu-Amankwah, Yoko Kusunose, Janet Tietyen Mullins, Nashiru Sulemana, Kamaldeen Yussif, Vivian Tackie-Ofosu, (2018) "Willingness of Rural and Peri-Urban Women Smallholder Farmers to Participate in Home-Grown School Feeding Farming Contracts in Ghana," Journal of Business Diversity, Vol.18, Iss. 2, pp. 15-32
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
The Ghanaian government has implemented a Home-Grown School Feeding Program, which mandates
that school caterers source food from local producers. The volume of local purchases, however, remains
low. This study explores constraints faced by local producers—particularly women—in selling their
production to local schools. We present results of an agricultural household survey, which includes
questions pertaining to a series of hypothetical school-grower contracts. We find that women state
slightly lower willingness to participate in contracts compared to men, something that is partially
explained by their differential ability to dictate the management of land and use of household income.
