Food and Cash Crop Productivities and Poverty Reduction in Ghana
Food and cash crop productivities growth provide food and improve smallholder farmers’ income to reduce poverty. Crop farmers poverty rate is disaggregated into food and cash crop type but beyond 2006 the poverty rate is not disaggregated which is addressed by this study. Food and cash crops have different growth paths and unequal pathways towards poverty. The paper estimates the poverty rates among food and cash crop farmers and examines their productivities effect on poverty.
