Abstract
Development literature show that when actors from different territories meet knowledge is likely to be shared in more relational and interactive terms. This argument forms the basis for interrogating the essence of knowledge diffusion from China into Ghana’s agricultural sector in terms of forms, contexts, processes and success variations. The research was qualitative in nature with the deployment of exploratory research design. The study used data collection methods involving 8 interviews and 3 focus group discussions involving purposively selected individuals, groups, state and non-state institutions in the agricultural sector. The dynamics of knowledge diffusion from China into Ghana’s agricultural sector, as the study found out, present certain unique patterns of non uniformity. Such non uniformities formed the basis upon which the knowledge diffusion processes could be understood and applied. Arrays of mediums were found as being used to diffuse the knowledge from China into Ghana’s agricultural sector in the contexts of increasing degrees of technological advancement and state-initiated policy arrangements. The study also found out that the successful diffusion of knowledge from one territory to another largely depends on the linguistic parity as well as foundational knowledge, adaptive power and innovative abilities of the actors in the recipient country. In all cases, the varied degree of diffused knowledge between the territories shows that the involvement of the state could be the defining factor in promoting knowledge diffusion.
Highlights
Reports and academic studies conducted on agricultural sector show clear manifestations of capital mobility crystallized through foreign direct investment, trade and inventor mobility
The major objective this paper was to discover the patterns of knowledge diffusion from China into Ghana’s agricultural sector
“Before I came to work here I was buying Chinese drugs I read more and I realized that they are all the same and what I see about drugs from China are not different from the drugs from Holland”(Official from Joeyeson Company) This is similar to the experiences of the engineers at Agricultural Engineering Services Directorate (AESD) who did not consider knowledge from China as non-existent because they have had exposure to other territorial origins of knowledge relative to traded products
Summary
Reports and academic studies conducted on agricultural sector show clear manifestations of capital mobility crystallized through foreign direct investment, trade and inventor mobility. As attempts are made to tease out the focus of this study as far as Chinese engagement in Ghana’s agricultural regime is concerned, I discover, from the literature, certain truths which characterize major economic relations between countries It has been established in the literature that when actors from different territories meet knowledge is likely to be shared in more relational and interactive terms [7]. Given the trade and investment patterns of agricultural input from China into Ghana’s agricultural sector it is clear that the presence of Chinese technology has become the central focal point around Ghana’s food production activities are largely organized thereby supporting [11] argument Putting it differently, it can be established, as a context, with the submission of [12] that just like capital mobility, knowledge diffusion enterprise has been crystallized in trade, investment and inventor mobility. The questions which may require attention are: 1. What are the traces of uniformity or otherwise in the patterns of diffused knowledge from China among the subsectors of the agricultural sector?
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