Research In Ghana Research Articles

The Influence of Spouses over each Other's Contraceptive Attitudes in Ghana

To what extent do spouses influence each other's reproductive goals? This question was investigated in Ghana with particular reference to family planning attitudes. Two mechanisms were identified as plausible explanations for why an individual's characteristics may affect a partner's beliefs and behavior. Quantitative evidence from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey and qualitative information from focus-group research in Ghana were used in the analysis. Results from both data sources show that spousal influence, rather than being mutual or reciprocal, is an exclusive right exercised only by the husband. The study attributed the limited impact of family planning programs in Ghana and most of sub-Saharan Africa to the continued neglect of men as equal targets of such programs.

The metallogenic relationship between Birimian and Tarkwaian gold deposits in Ghana

The traditional concept of the Early Proterozoic gold deposits in Ghana — i.e. gold-bearing shear zones overlain by Tarkwaian paleoplacers containing reworked gold derived from the shear-zones — needs to be reconsidered in the light of recent research in Ghana, the Ivory Coast and French Guiana. This research has revealed a consistent pattern of geostructural and metallogenic evolution in which both the Birimian and the Tarkwaian rocks were deformed by a major Eburnean compression (D2). It has shown that the NE-SW faults controlling the Gold Coast Range shear-zone mineralization (Ashanti-Prestea) were formed during the Eburnean D2 episode of thrusting that was followed by hydrothermal activity with the emplacement of auriferous arsenopyrite and then by the development of quartz veinlets and native gold; thus the shear-zone mineralization could only have appeared during the D2 late-orogenic stage. It has also shown evidence of post-depositional D2 deformation in the gold sites examined in the Tarkwa gold-bearing conglomerate, although the effects are limited and primary lithological controls have been preserved that reveal these deposits to be “modified paleo-placers”. Thus, the Tarkwaian gold could not be derived from the gold-bearing shear-zones.

Libraries in research and scholarship in Ghana

AbstractThe paper examines the contributions that libraries in Ghana are making towards research and scholarship in the country. The libraries discussed are mainly academic and special libraries as it is the view of the writer that school and public libraries are so poorly developed as to provide any materials of value to scholarship and research. It is also the view of the writer that libraries in Ghana are not making adequate contributions to scholarship and research in large part because of inadequate funds and physical facilities.

The Development of National Agricultural Research Capacity: India's Experience with the Rockefeller Foundation and Its Significance for Africa

Technical change is one of the critical elements that determine the pace of agricultural growth in developing countries. International agricultural research centers currently initiate much of the scientific work necessary for technical change, but individual countries also need to be able to identify what is relevant in the existing stock of international knowledge, to conduct adaptive research and farm-level tests, and thus to tailor techniques discovered in the laboratory to the specific requirements of different farming locations.1 These functions require investments in national scientific and technical institutions. The public sector is heavily involved in this enterprise because agricultural research requires lumpy investments, involves externalities, gives rise to public goods, and is subject to long gestation lags. As a measure of the scale of the effort of multilateral and bilateral official donors in supporting farm technology development at the national and international levels, the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) spent $163 million worldwide in 1985.2 Despite these expenditures, the process by which countries develop their own agricultural research capacity is little understood, as are the links in the long chain of research, experimentation, adaptation, and dissemination of technology. The theory of induced innovation, for instance, which explains technical change and institutional innovation as the result of relative factor scarcities, tends to treat as a "black box" the process of national capacity-building.3 Others have postulated that the demand for technical change reflects pressures from interest groups, but this approach has limited value as an explanation

Ghana’s Shift from Radical Populism

Essay| May 01 1987 Ghana’s Shift from Radical Populism Jon Kraus Jon Kraus Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, Fredonia Jon Kraus undertook research in Ghana during 1985. His most recent publications are “The Political Economy of Agricultural Regression in Ghana,” in Stephen Commins, Michael Lofchie and R. Payne, eds., Africa’s Agrarian Crisis (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986), and “The Political Economy of Trade Union–State Relations in Radical and Populist Regimes in Africa,” in Roger Southall, ed., Labour and Unions in Asia and Africa (London: Macmillan, 1987). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1987) 86 (520): 205–208. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1987.86.520.205 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jon Kraus; Ghana’s Shift from Radical Populism. Current History 1 May 1987; 86 (520): 205–208. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1987.86.520.205 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1987 by The Regents of the University of California1987 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

GHANAIAN RESPONSES TO THE NIGERIAN EXPULSIONS OF 1983

Journal Article GHANAIAN RESPONSES TO THE NIGERIAN EXPULSIONS OF 1983 Get access LYNNE BRYDON LYNNE BRYDON The author is a social anthropologist at Liverpool University. Her visit to Ghana in 1983 was funded jointly by the British Academy and the University of Liverpool. Previous research in Ghana was made possible by funding from Trinity College, Cambridge (the Wyse Studentship), SSRC, the British Academy, and the University of Liverpool. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 337, October 1985, Pages 561–586, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097722 Published: 01 October 1985

Review of stem borer research in Ghana

Research on stem borer pests of sugarcane, maize and rice in Ghana is briefly reviewed. The work on the biology of the borers carried out at Asutsuare between October 1977 and January 1980 has pinpointed the fact that the practice of ratooning is the principal cause of a devastating build up of stem borers in the sugarcane fields. Cost/benefit analysis has revealed that as a result of discontinuation of this practice, there would be an initial gain of $13.4/ha. The profit should increase in subsequent years when the foci of borer infestations are removed as a result of the discontinuation of ratooning. The use of imported parasites as well as insecticide treatment in controlling the borer populations has been ineffective. Further work in developing novel control measures against sugarcane borers is still in progress. Only cultural methods have been found useful in limiting the damage caused by stem borers to maize. Losses caused by stem borers to the rice crop in Ghana are still not well established.

The organisation of agricultural research in Ghana: Priorities, problems, implications for domestic food production and policy issues

In 1960–1975 the relatively high growth rate attained in food production in Ghana was through land area expansion because crop yield per unit area was low and did not improve. Real income is low and there is an abundant supply of cultivable land; consequently, public investment in food crop production research was low. Research on export and industrial crop production was emphasised more than research on food crop production and the limited research on food crops focused mainly on technical production problems although food problems in Ghana are as much social, institutional and concerned with policy as they are technical. However, because of the long delay in return to investment in agricultural research and because population and real income in Ghana are expected to increase at higher rates in 1976–1990 than in 1960–1975, it is necessary to expand public investment in social and technical research on food production and consumption immediately.

Biology and the Human Condition: Interview With Lionel Tiger

When I first grew up and had to have a job, I was defined as a sociologist because that is the degree I got—Political Sociology from the University of London. But since I had done research in Ghana (and hence studied black people), it was commonly felt that I must be something of an anthropologist. For a long time, when I was asked the question you asked, I would tell students that sociologists study white people arid that that was the only useful distinction— the most parsimonious distinction—one could make between sociology and anthropology. I have since come to think that the distinction is more serious, chiefly because anthropologists still retain a lingering interest in human beings, while sociologists have become, in a certain sense, condemned to being concerned with systems.

Time and Social Structure: And Other Essays

The papers reprinted in this volume have been selected with two considerations in mind: they record ethnographical observations from my field work among the Tallensi and in Ashanti that are not easily accessible elsewhere but continue to be useful for comparative studies and as background to current research in Ghana; and they represent applications of methods of analysis and schemes of interpretation that were emerging in British structural anthropology at the time of their publication. The Monographs on Social Anthropology were established in 1940 and aim to publish results of modem anthropological research of primary interest to specialists.

Risk factors for dysmenorrhea among Ghanaian undergraduate students.

Menstrual pain is one of the common gynaecological presentations of women of reproductive age to health care physicians. In Ghana, there exist a paucity of research on the risk factors of dysmenorrhea among older females. Very few studies in Ghana have addressed the risk factors for severe dysmenorrhea among University students. This study aims to identify the common risk factors and associated symptoms of menstrual pain which have been previously not caught the attention of researchers in Ghana. The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study involving to two hundred female undergraduate students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana. Data collected and analysed using standardized and acceptable statistical tools. Verbal multidimensional scoring system for assessment of dysmenorrhoea severity was used in this study to assess the severity of dysmenorrhoea. More than half (57.3%) of the respondents having pain beginning within the first two days of their menses. The common risk factors that predicted severity of dysmenorrhea (p<0.05) were quantity of menstrual flow and family history of menstrual pain. The common symptoms that accompanied dysmenorrhea were tiredness, loss of appetite, backache, dizziness, diarrhoea and mood changes (p<0.05). Dysmenorrhea is a serious public health problem which can be incapacitating. We advocate for more attention to reduce the burden of its negative consequences.