Dr. John Baptist D. Jatoe

Dr. John Baptist D. Jatoe

Contact info jjatoe@ug.edu.gh

Education

BSc, MPhil (Agric Econs) (Ghana), PhD (Agric. Econs) (Guelph, Canada)

Research Interest

1. Adoption and impact of innovations
2. Sustainability
3. Agricultural finance
4. Agri-environmental policy
5. Growth-poverty-inequality nexus

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Addey, K.A. and Jatoe, J.B.D. (2024). Implications of crop yield distributions for multiperil crop insurance rating in Ghana : a lasso model application. Agricultural Finance Review, 84(2/3), 246-265. https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-05-2024-0078
  2. Andani, A., Jatoe, J. B. D., & Al-Hassan, R. M. (2022). Production of Indigenous Food Crops: Implications for Children’s Nutritional Status of Farm Households in Northern Ghana. The European Journal of Development Research, 34(6), 2651-2665.
  3. Addey, K. A., Jatoe, J. B. D., & Kwadzo, G. T. M. (2020). Adoption of crop insurance in Ghana: An application of the complementary log-log truncated Poisson double-hurdle model. Agricultural Finance Review, 81(1), 76-93. 
  4. Ouedraogo, A., Egyir, I. S., Ouedraogo, M., & Jatoe, J. B. D. (2022). Farmers’ Demand for Climate Information Services: A Systematic Review. Sustainability, 14(15), 9025. 
  5. Diamoutene, A. and J.B.D. Jatoe (2020). Access to credit and maize productivity in Mali. Agricultural Finance Review. DOI 10.1108/AFR-05-2020-0066
  6. Addey, K.A., J.B.D. Jatoe and G.T.-M. Kwadzo (2020). Adoption of crop insurance in Ghana: an application of the complementary log-log truncated Poisson double-hurdle model. Agricultural Finance Review. DOI 10.1108/AFR-06-2019-0062
  7. Jatoe, J. B. D. and Al-Hassan, R. M. (2019). Determinants of rural poverty and its persistence in Ghana. UDS International Journal of Development (Spec. Issue, Sept. 2019).
  8. Mohammed, A-R. S., Al-hassan, S. and Jatoe, J. B. D. (2018). An overview of constraints to soybean production in the Northern Region of Ghana. UDS International Journal of Development 5(1): 32 – 40.
  9. Yirviel Janvier Métouolé Méda, Y.J., Egyir, I.S., Zahonogo, P., Jatoe, J.B.D., Atewamba, (2018). ‘Institutional factors and farmers’ adoption of conventional, organic and genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso’, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 16(1): 40-53, DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2018.1429523.
  10. Porgo, M., J.K.M. Kuwornu, P. Zahonogo, J.B.D. Jatoe, and I.S. Egyir (2018). ‘Credit constraints and cropland allocation decisions in rural Burkina Faso’. Land Use Policy 70: 666 – 674.
  11. Porgo, M., J.K.M. Kuwornu, P. Zahonogo, J.B.D. Jatoe, and I.S. Egyir (2017). "Credit constraints and labour allocation decisions in rural Burkina Faso", Agricultural Finance Review, 77(2): 257 – 274.
  12. Métouolé Méda, Y.J., Egyir, I.S., Jatoe, J.B.D., Atewamba, C. and Zahonogo, P. (2017) ‘The green economics of conventional, organic and genetically modified crops farming: a review’, Int. J. Green Economics, 11(1): 15 – 40.
  13. Annor B. P., A. Mensah-Bonsu and J. B. D. Jatoe. (2016). Compliance with GLOBALGAP Standards among Smallholder Pineapple Farmers in Akuapem-South, Ghana.  Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 6(1): 21 – 38.  DOI: 10.1108/JADEE-05-2013-0017.
  14. Sumberg J., J. Jatoe, U. Kleih & J. Flynn (2016). Ghana’s evolving protein economy.  Food Sec. DOI:10.1007/s12571-016-0606-6.

Edited book

  1. Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan W. Seini and John Baptist D. Jatoe. (2020). A compendium of thesis research papers. University of Ghana Printing Press, Legon. ISBN:978-9988-3-0192-7.

Book chapters

  1. Jatoe, J. B. D. (2014). On the adoption of improved cereal varieties in Ghana: improving the relevance of adoption studies to policy. In A.W. Seini, I.S. Egyir and J.K.M. Kuwornu (Eds.), Developments in Agricultural Economics and Contemporary Issues in Ghana (Pp. 49 – 64). University of Ghana Readers, Digibooks Ghana Limited.  ISBN 978-9988-1-9900-5.
  2. Jatoe, J. B. D. (2012). An Analysis of Smallholder Agriculture, Policy-Making and Advocacy in Ghana.  In Tendai Murisa (Ed.), From rhetoric to policy action: an analysis of agricultural policy reform in six African countries (P. 31 – 55). Africa World Press.  ISBN 978-1-59221-891-2 (hard cover) - ISBN 978-1-59221-892-9 (soft cover).
  3. Jatoe, J. B. D., Weersink, A., Deaton, B. J., & Yiridoe, E. K. (2012). Cost effectiveness of sediment abatement policies in potato production: assessing policies in Canada, the Netherlands and the U.S. In Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox and Roel Jongeneel,(Eds.), The economics of regulation in agriculture: compliance with public and private standards (Pp. 247 - 261). CABI. ISBN 978 1 84593 557 3.