Gender dynamics awareness in seed yam production, implications on food security: The case of community action for improving farmer saved seeds (CAY-seed) project

Bright Owusu Asante
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agri-Business, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.
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Eric Henry Yeboah

Eric Henry Yeboah
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.
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Lydia Brobbey

Lydia Brobbey
CSIR - Crops Research Institute. P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Monica Opoku

Monica Opoku
CSIR - Crops Research Institute. P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Stella Ennin

Stella Ennin
CSIR - Crops Research Institute. P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Kingsley Osei

Kingsley Osei
CSIR - Crops Research Institute. P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Article Number - 1EC809471330
Vol.15(3), pp. 67-80 , July 2023
https://doi.org/10.5897/IJSA2023.0974

Received: 20 July 2023
Accepted: 12 September 2023
Published: 30 September 2023

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