Agricultural diversification, food self-sufficiency and food security in ghana-the role of infrastructure and institutions

African Smallholders: Food Crops, Markets and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 189-213

  Dzanku, Fred M ^a   Sarpong, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

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