Prof. Daniel B. Sarpong

Prof. Daniel B. Sarpong

Contact info dbsarpong@ug.edu.gh

About

Profile

Prof. Daniel B. Sarpong is an Associate Professor and former Dean, School of Agriculture, University of Ghana.  He is a product of the University of Ghana, International University of Japan and Nagoya University, Japan. He is a Fellow of Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He was the Chair/Head, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana, a position he has held on three occasions between 2006 and 2017. He was from 2012-2014 the Vice Dean, School of Agriculture, under the then College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences (CACS), University of Ghana. He has also served on several University of Ghana Boards/Committees and was the Chairman, Ethics Committee for Basic and Applied Sciences (ECBAS) and the past Chairman, Junior, and Senior Staff Promotion and Appointments Committee of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS), University of Ghana. Daniel is a former member of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts (StC-HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition, UN-FAO for the 2019-2021 session. He has been teaching and undertaking research and extension work at the University of Ghana since September 1998, when he was first appointed as a Lecturer. He teaches courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Research Methodology and Statistics and Econometrics. He has over 100 published journal articles, technical publications, and other reports. Over the last two decades and a half, he has supervised several PhD, MPhil and Bachelor students for their theses and dissertations. He provides scientific analysis of socio-economics of agricultural households and their impacts on the macro-economy.  He has led the Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness in providing several consultancy extension works to several governmental, non-governmental and international organizations which has helped to resource staff and students. The consultancies has helped to offer graduate students the critical field practical and generated data for graduate/undergraduate research work. He also led the Department in her review of the current undergraduate courses and led the introduction of two new PhD Programs, PhD Agribusiness and PhD Agricultural Administration, besides the re-branded PhD Agricultural Economics programme now called PhD in Applied Agricultural Economics and Policy. Prof Sarpong has also received several research grant support to train several PhD students, and currently manages an AGRA-funded PhD program (PhD in Applied Agricultural Economics and Policy) which aims at training 16 Francophone West African PhDs and 4 Anglophone West African PhDs. The first batch of 7 Francophone West Africa PhD students successfully defended their theses in December 2016. He is the principal investigator and has also collaborated with others on several baseline and other studies commissioned by CIDA/MoFA; JICA/MoFA; MoFA-RTIMP, ACDI/VOCA ADVANCE; Center for International Health, School of Public Health, Boston University/University of Ghana; FAO; DFID/ISSER/WB; World Bank; CAADP-NEPAD. He recently was with the Futures Agriculture Consortium (FAC) Climate Change that undertook the study on “Study on climate change and agricultural policy processes in Ghana” and the University of Georgia Global Peanut Product Processing and Marketing Team. He is currently part of an international research team on Indicators of Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa (IANDA) Project, based at Tufts University, USA. His current on-going research is on Cocoa for Future (Cocoa4Future): Sustainability of production systems and new dynamics in the cocoa sector.

Education

BSc (Agric, Ghana) M.A (Int. Rel:Econ., Inter.Uni. Japan) PhD (Econ., Nagoya)

Research Interest

  1. Macro-Econometrics/ Modeling
  2. Trade Integration of World Economies
  3. Agribusiness in Economic Development
  4. Climate Change and Technology Policy
  5. Environment and Economic Development
  6. Resource Economic Issues 
  7. Food Security and Nutrition

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Herforth AW, Gilbert R, Sokourenko K, Fatima T, Adeyemi O, Alemayehu D, Arhin E, Bachewe F, Bai Y, Chiosa I, Genye T, Haile H, Jahangeer R, Kinabo J, Mishili F, Nnabugwu CD, Nortey J, Ofosu-Baadu B, Onabolu A, Sarpong D, Tessema M, Van DTT, Venkat A, Masters WA. (2024). Monitoring the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet within countries: Building systems in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Viet Nam. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8(10):104441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.104441
  2. Alfred Asuming Boakye, Daniel Adu Ankrah, Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Isaac Baidoo, Daniel Bruce Sarpong (2024). Indigenous risk management practices and their effects on small agribusiness firm growth amid economic crisis in Ghana. Scientific African 23. e02095
  3. Tuffour, M., Owusu, G., & Sarpong, D. B. (2024). Urbanization effects on urban vegetable farmers adaptation: Evidence from Ghana. Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, 9, e20052. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20052
  4. Chinasa Sylvia Onyenekwe, Daniel Bruce Sarpong, Irene Susana Egyir, Patience Ifeyinwa Opata & Oyakhilomen Oyinbo (2024) A comparative study of farming and fishing households’ livelihood vulnerability in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 67:1, 217-241, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2107495
  5. Onyenekwe, C. S., Opata, P. I., Ume, C. O., Sarpong, D. B., & Egyir, I. S. (2023). Heterogeneity of adaptation strategies to climate shocks: Evidence from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Bio-Based and Applied Economics, 12(1), 17–35. https://doi.org/10.36253/bae-13436
  6. Asravor, R.K & D.B. Sarpong (2023). Risk preferences and management strategies of farmers in Ghana: Does the type of crop grown matter? Journal of International Development, 35 (6), 1080-1098.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3719
  7. Selorm, A., Sarpong, D. B. S., Egyir, I. S., Mensah Bonsu, A., & An, H. (2023). Does contract farming affect technical efficiency? Evidence from soybean farmers in Northern Ghana. Agricultural and Food Economics, 11(1), 1-22. 
  8. Onyenekwe, C. S., Okpara, U. T., Opata, P. I., Egyir, I. S., & Sarpong, D. B. (2022). The Triple Challenge: Food Security and Vulnerabilities of Fishing and Farming Households in Situations Characterized by Increasing Conflict, Climate Shock, and Environmental Degradation. Land, 11(11), 1982. 
  9. Ntiamoah, E. B., Li, D., Ameyaw, B., Sarpong, D. B., Twumasi Ankrah, M., & Nyamah, E. Y. (2022). A data‐driven approach to mitigating food insecurity and achieving zero hunger: A case study of West African countries. Natural Resources Forum, 46(2), 157-178.
  10. Asravor, R. K., & Sarpong, D. B. (2022). Risk preferences and management strategies of farmers in Ghana: Does the type of crop grown matter? Journal of International Development, 1-19.
  11. Onyenekwe, C. S., Sarpong, D. B., Egyir, I. S., Opata, P. I., & Oyinbo, O. (2022). A comparative study of farming and fishing households’ livelihood vulnerability in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-25.
  12. Kwawu, J. D., Sarpong, D. B., & Agyire-Tettey, F. (2022). Technology adoption intensity and technical efficiency of maize farmers in the Techiman municipality of Ghana. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 14(2), 532-545.
  13. Meng, T., Florkowski, W. J., Sarpong, D. B., Chinnan, M., & Resurreccion, A. V. (2021). Cooking fuel usage in sub-Saharan urban households. Energies, 14(15), 4629.
  14. Boimah, M., Mensah-Bonsu, A., Osei-Asare, Y., & Sarpong, D. B. (2020). Measuring sustainability of conservation and conventional practices in maize production in Ghana. Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID), 114(2), 21-40.
  15. Ayerakwa, H. M., Dzanku, F. M., & Sarpong, D. B. (2020). The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana. Agricultural and Food Economics, 8, 1-21.
  16. Ali, E., Egbendewe, A. Y., Abdoulaye, T., & Sarpong, D. B. (2020). Willingness to pay for weather index-based insurance in semi-subsistence agriculture: evidence from northern Togo. Climate Policy, 20(5), 534-547.
  17. Kaya, O., Florkowski, W. J., Sarpong, D., Chinnan, M. S., & Ressurrecion, A. V. (2020). Groundnut spread likability, sensory properties, and intent to pay for quality certification. Food & Nutrition Research, 64.
  18. Adeoye, I. D., Seini, W., Sarpong, D., & Amegashie, D. (2019). Effect of off-farm income on multi-dimensional poverty among rural farm households in Nigeria. International Journal of Social Economics, 46(9), 1081-1094.
  19. Ntiamoah, E. B., Li, D., & Sarpong, D. B. (2019). The effect of innovation practices on agribusiness performance: A structural equation modelling (SEM) approach. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 11(6), 671-681.
  20. Darkwah, K. A., Kwawu, J. D., Agyire-Tettey, F., & Sarpong, D. B. (2019). Assessment of the determinants that influence the adoption of sustainable soil and water conservation practices in Techiman Municipality of Ghana. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 7(3), 248-257.
  21. Akrofi, ⁠N. A, D.B. Sarpong⁠⁠, H.A.S. Somuah⁠, Y. Osei-Owusu⁠ (2019). Paying for privately installed irrigation services in Northern Ghana: The case of the smallholder Bhungroo Irrigation Technology. Agricultural Water Management. Vol 216, Issue C. pp 284-293). doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.02.010
  22. Evans Brako Ntiamoah, Dongmei Li & Daniel Bruce Sarpong (2019). The Effect of Innovation practices on Agribusiness Performance: A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) Approach. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. DOI: 10.1080/20421338.2019.1573958
  23. Masters, William A., Yan Bai, Anna Herforth, Daniel Sarpong, Fulgence Mishili, Joyce Kinabo, and Jennifer Coates. 2018. "Measuring the Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa: Novel Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and Cost of Nutrient Adequacy." American Journal of Agricultural Economics (in press)
  24. Shu WANG , Wojciech J. FLORKOWSKI, Manjeet S. CHINNAN, Anna V.A. RESURRECCION, Daniel B. SARPONG (2018). The Alleviation of Vitamin A Deficiency through Staple Food Fortification in Ghana. Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics. ISSN 1336-9261, XXI (Number 2, 2018): 94-102 doi: 10.15414/raae/2018.21.02.94-102
  25. Meng, T., W. J. Florkowski, A. M. Klepacka, D. Sarpong, A.V. A. Resurreccion, M. Chinnan, A. Ekielski. 2018. Preferences for Groundnut Products among Urban residents in Ghana. Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture, 98 (2):817-824. Version of Record online: 28 Aug 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.8532.
  26. Nonvide, G. M. A., Sarpong, D. B., Kwadzo, G. T., Anim-Somuah, H., & Amoussouga Gero, F. (2018). Farmers’ perceptions of irrigation and constraints on rice production in Benin: a stakeholder-consultation approach. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 34(6), 1001-1021. 
  27. Mensah-Bonsu, A., Sarpong, D. B., Al-Hassan, R., Asuming-Brempong, S., Egyir, I. S., Kuwornu, J. K., & Osei-Asare, Y. B. (2017). Intensity of and factors affecting land and water management practices among smallholder maize farmers in Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 12(311-2017-735), 142-157. 
  28. Aaron, G. J., Strutt, N., Boateng, N. A., Guevarra, E., Siling, K., Norris, A., ... & Myatt, M. (2016). Assessing program coverage of two approaches to distributing a complementary feeding supplement to infants and young children in Ghana. PloS one, 11(10), e0162462. 
  29. Baidoo, I., Sarpong, D. B. and Bolwig, S. (2016), Biochar amended soils and crop productivity: A critical and meta-analysis of literature, International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol. 5 No. 9, pp. 414-432
  30. Meng, T., Florkowski, W. J., Sarpong, D. B., Chinnan, M. S., & Resurreccion, A. V. (2014). Consumer’s food shopping choice in Ghana: supermarket or traditional outlets?. International food and agribusiness management review, 17(1030-2016-82985), 107-130.
  31. Manteaw, S. A., Sakyi-Dawson, O., Atengdem, P. B., Sarpong D. B., and Aligebam, B.B (2014). Triggers of innovativeness in Publicly and Privately driven Agricultural Value Chains: Case study of Cocoa and pineapple in Ghana. International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol.3, No 5. Pp 1026-1042
  32. Manteaw, S.A, Sakyi-Dawson, O; Atengdem, P.B; Sarpong D.B (2014). Implications of Policy on Publicly and Privately driven Agricultural Industries: A Case study of Cocoa and Pineapple Value Chains in Ghana. International Journal of Agricultural Extension, Vol. 2, No1, pp 65-79
  33. Mabe, F. N; Sarpong, D.B; Osei-Asare, Y. (2014): Empirical Evidence of Climate Change: Effects on Rice Production in the Northern Region of Ghana. British Journal of Economics, Management and Trade Vol. 4, No 4, pp 551-562
  34. Dziwornu, R.K. and Sarpong, D.B. (2014). Application of the Stochastic Profit Frontier Model to Estimate Economic Efficiency in Small Scale Broiler Production in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 17 (2), p. 10-16.
  35. Djurfeldt, A.A, Djurfeldt, G. and Sarpong, D.B (2014). Community, Cohesion and Context: Agrarian development and religion in Eastern Region, Ghana. Geoforum 52, 78-89, Elsevier
  36. Awunyo-Vitor, D; Al-Hassan, R.M, Sarpong D.B and Egyir I. (2014). Agricultural Credit Rationing in Ghana: What do formal lenders look out for? Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 74, 3, pp 304-378
  37. Asante, B.O, Wiredu, A.N, Martey E, Sarpong D.B and Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2014). Nerica Adoption and Impacts on Technical Efficiency of Rice Producing Households in Ghana: Implications for Research and Development, American Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 4(3) pp 244-262
  38. Gockwoski, J; Afari-Sefa, B; Sarpong D.B, Osei-Asare, Y.B and Agyeman, N.F (2013) Improving the productivity and income of Ghanaian Cocoa farmers while maintaining environmental services: What role for certification? International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Vol 11, No.4, pp 331-346.
  39. Florkowski, W.J., Chinnan, M.S., Resurreccion, A.V.A. and Sarpong, D. (2013). Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Frequency by Urban Households in Ghana - Implications for Postharvest Handling. Acta Hortic. 1012, 1387-1391. DOI:10.17660/ActaHortic.2013.1012.187 http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2013.1012.187
  40. Dziwornu, R.K; Sarpong D.B, Kwadzo G.T-M and Kuwornu, J.K (2013), Does Scale Matter in Profitability of Small Scale Broiler Agribusiness Production in Ghana? A Translog Profit Production Model. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, Vol. 4, No 20, pp 105-117
  41. Drafor, I; Kunze, D. and Sarpong, D.B (2013) Food Security: How Rural Ghanaian Households respond to Food Shortages in Lean Season, Int. Journal of Agricultural Management, Vol. 2, Issue 4, pp199-206
  42. Asiedu, B., Nunoo, F.K.E; Ofori-Danson.P.K, Sarpong, D.B and Sumaila, U.R (2013). Poverty Measurements in Small-Scale Fisheries of Ghana: A step towards Poverty Eradication. Current Research Journal of Social Sciences, 5(3): 75-90
  43. Asenso-Okyere, R; Sarpong D.B; Okyere, C.Y, Mensah-Bonsu, A. and Asuming-Brempong S. (2013) Modelling the Determinants of Farmers Decisions on Exclusive Schooling and Child Labour in the Cocoa Sector of Ghana. Global Journal of Human Social Science Economics, Vol. 13, Issue 3(1)
  44. Tekuni Nakuja; Daniel B. Sarpong; John K. M. Kuwornu and Asante A. Felix (2012) Water storage for dry season vegetable farming as an adaptation to climate change in the upper east region of Ghana, African Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7(2), pp. 298-306
  45. Nimoh, F; Asuming-Brempong, S and Sarpong, D.B (2012). Consumer Preference for Processed Cowpea Products in Selected Communities of the Coastal Regions of Ghana. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vol 2, No 2, pp. 113-119
  46. Mabe, F., Sarpong D. B., Osei-Asare, Y. (2012). Adaptive Capacities of Farmers to Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and their Effects on Rice Production in the Northern Region of Ghana, Russian Journal of Agricultural and Social-Economic Sciences, Vol 11, No11 pp9-17
  47. Issahaku, H; Sarpong, D.B, Al-Hassan, R. (2012) Evaluating the Viability of Shea Butter Production: A Comparative Analysis, Research Journal of Finance and Accounting, Vol. 3, No8, pp 44-42
  48. Fousseni Barres N., A. Mensah-Bonsu and D.B. Sarpong (2012). Avian influenza shock and performance of the chicken markets in Benin, World's Poultry Science Journal, Volume 68, Issue 03, September 2012, pp 529-542
  49. Danquah, J. A., Sarpong, D. B., & Pappinen, A. (2013). Causal relationships between African mahoganies exports and deforestation in Ghana: policy implications. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 15, 51-66. 30. Xinshen Diao and D. B. Sarpong (2011) Poverty Implications of Agricultural Land Degradation in Ghana: An Economy-wide, Multimarket Model Assessment, African Development Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2011, 263–275
  50. Kuwornu J.K.M.; D. B. Sarpong; Wilberforce K. Osei (2011). Farmers’ Willingness To Adopt Genetically Modified Maize Seeds In Ghana, Insights to a changing. World Quarterly Journal No. 3 pp53-65
  51. Haruna Issahaku, Al-Hassan Ramatu and D. B. Sarpong (2011). An analysis of allocative efficiency of shea butter processing methods in the northern region of Ghana, Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics Vol. 3(4), pp. 165-173
  52. Gockowski James, Victor Afari-Sefa; D. B. Sarpong, Yaw B. Osei-Asare; Ambrose K. Dziwornu (2011). Increasing Income of Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers: Is Introduction of Fine Flavour Cocoa a Viable Alternative. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 50 (2011), No. 2: 175-200
  53. Asante, B. O., Afari-Sefa, V., & Sarpong, D. B. (2011). Determinants of small scale farmers’ decision to join farmer based organizations in Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 6(10), 2273-2279. 
  54. Larbi-Apau, J.A and D.B. Sarpong (2010). Performance Measurement: Does Education Impact Productivity? Performance Improvement Quarterly, 22 (4), p.81-97. Wiley InterScience, USA.
  55. Al-Hassan, R.M; H. G. Agbekpornu and D. B. Sarpong (2008). Consumer Preferences for Rice Quality Characteristics in Accra and the Effects of these Preferences on Price. Agricultural and Food Science Journal of Ghana, Vol. 7, December. Pp 575-591.
  56. Dziwornu, R.K., D.B. Sarpong and G.T-M Kwadzo (2007). Effects of Trade Liberalization Policy on the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Food Processing Industries in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Journal of Business Research. Vol. 1 Nos. 1 &2. Pp. 49-59.
  57. Ayamga M., D.B. Sarpong and S. Asuming-Brempong (2006). Factors Influencing the Decision to Participate in Micro-Credit Programmes: an Illustration for Northern Ghana. Ghana Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 3 No.2. December. Pp. 57-65.
  58. Al-Hassan Seidu, D.B. Sarpong and S. Asuming-Brempong (2006). Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana: An Analysis of Technical Efficiency based on Different Farming Systems and Gender. The ICFAI Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. III No.3. July. India. Pp. 21-33.
  59. Sarpong, D.B. and S. Asuming-Brempong (2004). Responding to Economic Shocks in Ghana: The Agricultural Sector as a Social Safety Net. eJournal of Agricultural and Development Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1. Pp. 117-137. FAO, Rome.
  60. Al-Hassan Seidu, D.B. Sarpong and Ramatu Al-Hassan (2004). Allocative Efficiency, Employment and Rice Production Risk: an analysis of smallholder paddy farms in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 1 No.2. December. Pp. 142-163.
  61. Achel, D.S, Sarpong D.B and V.O Asante (2001). Small Scale Farmer Attributes and Formal Agricultural Credit Lending Decisions: Implications for Rural Development in Ghana, Afro-Asian Journal of Rural Development, 34 (1), India. Pp. 7-17.
  62. Sarpong D.B (1994). International Cocoa Market and Ghanaian Economy: A Simulation Study, The Economic Science, Vol. 42 No. 1, 1994, Nagoya University-Japan, pp. 35-67.
  63. Sarpong D.B (1993). A macro econometric model of Ghana, an analysis of government economic activities, 1970-1984, The Economic Science Vol.40, No.4, 1993, Nagoya University, Japan, pp. 151-185

Book

  1. Sarpong D.B (1997). Growth in Ghana: A macro-econometric model simulation integrating agriculture, Ashgate Publishers, UK, ISBN: 1 85972 673 9. 229 pp.

Chapter in Books

  1. Gbetondji MA Nonvide, DB Sarpong, G.T-M Kwadzo and H. Anim Somuah (2020) ‘Irrigation Adoption, Food Security and Poverty Reduction among Rice Farmers in Benin’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p33-50
  2. Almame A. Tinta, A. Mensah-Bonsu, DB Sarpong, Idrissa M. Ouedraogo and EE Onumah (2020) “Assessing the potential of Regional Integration and International Trade for Achieving Economic Growth and Food Security in ECOWAS’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p51-65
  3. Aristide S. Ouedraogo, RM Al-Hassan, DPK Amegashie, DB Sarpong and Pam Zahonogo (2020) ‘Agricultural Commercialization and Food Crop Productivity as Pathways to Poverty Reduction among Smallholder Farmers in Rural Burkina Faso’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p67-78
  4. Gilbert O. Adjimoti, G.T-M Kwadzo, DB Sarpong and E.E. Onumah (2020) ‘Crop Diversification, Land Allocation and Household Resilience to Food Insecurity in Benin’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p79-95
  5.  Ifeoluwa D. Adeoye, Alhassan Wayo Seini, DB Sarpong, DPK Amegashie and Adewale Dipeolu (2020) ‘Linkages between Income Diversification and Poverty Status of Rural Farm Households in Nigeria’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p97-110
  6. Essossinam Ali, Alhassan Wayo Seini, DB Sarpong, AYG Egbendewe and DPK Amegashie (2020) ‘Climate Variability and Cereal Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Weather Index-Based Insurance in Northern Togo’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p153-167
  7. Boimah, M. A Mensah-Bonsu, Y Osei-Asare and DB Sarpong (2020) ‘Sustainability of Conservation Practices for Maize Production in the Northern Region of Ghana’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p211-222
  8. Hongbete K. Pythagore, DB Sarpong, JBD Jatoe, Y. Osei-Asare and Charlemagne B. Igue (2020) ‘Social Preferences for Wetland Attributes and their Implications for Agricultural Households Wellbeing in Oueme Delta, Benin’ in Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Alhassan Wayo-Seini and JBD Jatoe (eds.), A Compendium of Thesis Research Papers. Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana Printing Press, ISBN: 978-9988-3-0192-7, p237-250
  9. Dzanku, F. M. and Sarpong, D. B. (2018) ‘Spatial and gendered linkages between non-farm diversification and farm productivity in Ghana’, in A. A. Djurfeldt, F. M. Dzanku and A.C. Isinika (eds.), Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa Longitudinal Perspectives from Six Countries. Oxford University Press, Chapter 9, pp. ISBN: 9780198799290. 288 pages
  10. Sarpong, D. B. and Al-Hassan, R. M (2014). The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Making in Ghana. In, Al-Hassan W. Seini, Irene S. Egyir and John K. M. Kuwornu (eds), “Developments in Agricultural Economics and Contemporary Issues in Ghana”, pp. 131 – 149, University of Ghana Readers, University of Ghana, ISBN: 978-9988-1-9900-5.
  11. Florkowski, W.J; A.M. Klepacka; P.M. Nambia, T.Meng; S. Fu, G. Sheremenko and D.B. Sarpong (2014). Consumer Expenditures on Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. In, Wojciech Florkowski et al. (eds), Postharvest Handling—A Systems Approach, 3rd Edition. Academic Press, Elsevier. April. Pp. 147-166. Chapter 7
  12. Dzanku, F.M and Sarpong, D.B (2013). Agricultural Diversification, Food Self Sufficiency and Food security in Ghana: The Role of Infrastructure and Institutions, in, African Smallholders in Food Crops Markets and Policy, eds. Djurfeldt, G; Aryeetey, E and Isinika, A C. CAB International, UK pp 189-213
  13. Sarpong Daniel B. (2009). Ghana’s Agricultural Commodity Trade to ECOWAS: Implications and Options for Regional Integration, in, Ninsin, K.A (ed.) Nation-States and the Challenges of Regional Integration in West Africa, The Case of Ghana. Editions Karthala, Paris, France. Pp 57-78.
  14. Osei-Amponsah C., K. A. Anaman and D. B. Sarpong (2009). Marital Status and Household Size as Determinants of Poverty among Fishmongers in Tema, Ghana. In, Marriage Roles: Stability and conflict (Ed.), S. P. Kenneth. Nova Scotia Publishers, Inc.
  15. Wolf, S. and D.B. Sarpong (2008). Export Performance and Investment Behaviour in Ghana, in, E. Aryeetey and R. Kanbur (eds), The Economy of Ghana-Analytical Perspectives on Stability, Growth and Poverty. James Currey, UK/Woeli Publishing Services, Accra. Pp 132-152.
  16. Xinshen Diao and Daniel Sarpong (2008). Cost Implications of Agricultural Land Degradation in Ghana, An Economy-wide, Multimarket Model Assessment in, Columbus, Frank (ed.) Current Politics and Economics of Africa, Volume 1 Issue 3/4, ISSN: 1098-4070, Nova Publishers, pp.243-274.
  17. Sarpong D.B and V.O. Asante (2005). An assessment of Ghana’s food trade infrastructure on the food marketing system, in, Kouassi B., G. Sirpé and A. Gogué (eds.), Infrastructure de commerce et échanges des produits alimentaires, disponibilité, utilization et coût en Afrigue de l’Ouest centrale. Editions Karthala, Paris, ISBN 2-84586-696-8. pp 211-236.
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