Ghana Brief 2017 - The African Seed Access Index

This country brief summarizes the key findings of The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) study conducted in 2016/17 to appraise the structure and economic performance of Ghana’s seed sector. The study evaluates the enabling environment necessary to build a vibrant formal seed sector, focusing on four grain and legume crops –– maize, rice, soya bean, and cowpea. Three of these (maize, rice, and cowpea) are important to food security in Ghana, while soya bean is included as it is an important cash crop with implications for the country’s economic development. Maize, rice, and cowpea also represent three of the five priority food crops identified by the country’s Food and Agriculture Sector Development Policy (FASDEP II)