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Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica are the causal agents of the zoonotic food-born disease fascioliasis. Africa is primarily endemic to F. gigantica, although sympatric presence of F. hepatica is known for some countries. The present situation of fascioliasis in western Africa, and Ghana in particular, is still poorly understood, and studies including molecular identification of species and variants are lacking. In this explorative study we genotyped 19 Fasciola isolates obtained by...

Poor solid waste management has increasingly taken a hegemonic position in urban policy discourse in Ghana. Often, the discourse centers on free market principles and inflexible waste management laws that promote privatization and deregulation. Recently however, source separation is dominating discussions on policy alternatives. This study investigates determinants of households’ source separation behaviour and solid waste disposal options among residents of Ghana’s ‘Millennium City’- Accr...

The enactment of the ECOWAS protocol on free movement of Persons, right to Residence and Establishment in 1979 culminated in the removal of all obstacles to free movements. Border control under the protocol was to balance border security and facilitation of legitimate migration across borders. Alien Fulani herdsmen influx and menace in Ghana have become of great concern to Ghanaians and government. The main objective of this thesis was to examine how border control in Upper East Region (UER) ...

The challenge of solid waste management has been subjected to a variety of reactions and interpretations: strange mixtures of neglect and misconceptions of what could be the way forward. Over the years, Ghanaian authorities have problematized issues of waste management to collection and transportation and have shied away from formulating policies that can limit conflicts in waste sink communities. This article examines how a landfill infrastructure in Kumasi has engendered conflicts. Trig...

Agriculture in northern Ghana is largely rain-fed dependent within current climate variability, Generally, adaptive capacities of smallholder farming households to climate change are low, This study investigated factors influencing the adaptive capacity of smallholder farming households to climate change and climate variability in the Savelugu/Nanton Municipality in the Northern Region of Ghana. The adaptive capacity index for farming households were computed and a Tobit regression model...

Improved formulations of complementary foods (CFs) with animal-source foods (ASFs) is an important strategy to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF). However, ASFs are expensive in many food-insecure settings where edible insects abound. CFs were developed from flours of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) and cricket (OFSCri) or palm weevil larvae (OFSPal) or soybean (OFSSoy) in the ratio 7:3. Nutritional and microbial quality of the novel CFs were determined and compared with We...

Empirical literature and policy documents always capture access to credit as one of the most important determinants of successful agricultural production in Ghana and elsewhere in the developing world, particularly Africa. It is often argued that access to credit allows farmers to invest confidently in their agricultural production activities leading to increased productivity, which consequently is able to urge them out of poverty. The extent to which these long held views and narratives...

It is always important to evaluate the performance of agricultural interventions as early as possible in order that subsequent implementation could benefit from lessons learned from successes and failures. This paper examined the effect of participation in Ghana's Planting for Food and Jobs programme on maize yields in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of Northern Region. Data from a cross-section of maize farmers was analyzed using the Heckman treatment effects model. The results showed th...

This study emerges from the recognition that economic and socio-cultural barriers to girls schooling constitute one of the persistent constraints for attaining the goal of "Basic Education for All" in Ghana in general, and in the Builsa District of the Upper East Region in particular. An underpinning explanation is that the rate of dropouts from schools can provide an appropriate indicator for understanding the magnitude of the problem at the school level, and that the possible areas for...

Social Protection provisioning for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Ghana is highly inadequate. Despite the passage of the Persons with Disability Act of 2006 (Act 715) to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [UNCRPD], PWDs in Ghana still face substantial barriers of entry into the workplace and for social and political participation. PWDs lack material supports; including health care, education and training, credit facilities and transportat...

The need for a systematic study and assessment of northern conflict on development, especially the role of conflict in depriving affected people of their life-sustaining basic human needs which include livelihood, food, shelter, health and protection is very important. This study is an assessment of how the 1994/95 northern conflict affected development and livelihoods of the people of Yendi Municipality. The 1994/95 northern conflict was fought between ethnic groups that regard themselves as...

Effective and efficient security systems of organisations guarantee their safety. It is in this context that security personnel absenteeism poses a serious challenge to managements worldwide. It is on this basis that the study was conducted to find out the causes, effects and management implication of absenteeism on the Wa Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS). The large student numbers, scattered locations of facilities both on the main Campus at Bamahu and the satellit...

In this paper, we investigate the factors influencing open-access, small-scale fresh water fishers' income in Yeji, a major inland fishing port town in Ghana. Semi-structured questionnaires were used to obtain data from 306 randomly sampled fishers. The analysis was done using the Scarbough and Kydd model to estimate marketing margins of fishers; and multiple linear regression analysis to determine the factors influencing fishers' incomes. The study revealed that fish processors received...

Taenia solium cysticercosis is a cosmopolitan foodborne disease that is neglected in many endemic tropical societies. The disease situation is less understood in parts of sub-Saharan Africa including Ghana, meanwhile useful surveillance data are needed from all endemic localities for designing effective intervention strategies. The present study estimated abattoirbased prevalence and distribution of T. solium cysticercosis in pigs from northern Ghana. A survey was carried out at the Kumas...

The study evaluated the performance of the centre pivot irrigation system at Kukobila Nasia Farms Limited in the Savelugu Municipality, Northern Region of Ghana using centre pivot performance indicators. Two centre pivot irrigation systems were evaluated using selected performance indicators, categorised into; field operations, financial level, environmental condition and production potential. The problems of the centre pivot system were also identified. Field measurements, questionnaire...

A 56-day feeding trial was performed to evaluate the effect of herbal-probiotic supplements comprising a mixture of Chinese herbs (CH) (i.e., Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica sinensis, and Crataegus hupehensis) and or commercially prepared probiotic Bacillus species (BS) (i.e., spores of B. subtilis and B.licheniformis) on the physiological response of Nile tilapia. Fish (50 ± 2 g) were fed six diets in duplicates including a control (CT) enriched with BS [at 10 g kg− 1 ], CH [at 10 g k...

This study examined the association between teacher characteristics and primary school children’s educational attainment. Additionally, it explored whether certain teacher characteristics are more important for children attending disadvantaged schools. Multilevel analyses of linked administrative data on teacher characteristics and attainment indicate socio-economic differences in children’s educational outcomes. Teacher certification and experience were associated with children’s attain...

Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) quality is strongly influenced by several factors and the geographical origin is one of the key parameters. However, fraudulent practices including mislabeling of the geographical sources might occur. In the present experiment, the analyzed samples consisted of 64 authentic samples originating from the world's best roselle country (Sudan) and eight samples from the world's largest producer (China) were investigated. The study investigated whether near-infrared sp...

The sex differences in malnutrition and hypertension during adolescence is largely inconclusive. There is also a paucity of data on the sex-specific correlates of malnutrition and hypertension for adolescents. Hence, this study aimed to assess the association between malnutrition, pre-hypertension/hypertension (PHH) and sex among adolescents. The study also aimed to determine and contrast the factors associated with these risks in Ghana. We analysed data of non-pregnant adolescent girls (n = ...