Jones Abrefa Danquah

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the socioeconomic factors affecting adoption of CODAPEC and Cocoa High-Tech Technology packages introduced by Ghana government into cocoa production system to address the dwindling levels of productivity and employed a multi-stage random sampling technique to select 250 households from 25 communities in five of the eight cocoa districts in Central Region of Ghana.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors determine the socioeconomic factors influencing farmers' decisions to participate in voluntary tree planting projects in rural communities in Ghana and conduct a structured questionnaire to identify the role of individual farmers residing in the off-reserve areas that are dominated by agricultural landscapes in this national reforestation drive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the wood waste generation, its management practices, and its effects on the forests in Ghana and found that 80% of the timber production companies do not manage the waste they generate during their operations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Granger causality test within the error correction model was employed to evaluate the direction of causality between African mahoganies exports and deforestation in Ghana, and the results indicated that in the short run, there was significant (P \ 0.01) unidirectional causality from African Mahogany exports to deforestation.