New cash cropping in the Black Volta river valley: Banana production, rural innovation, and social entrepreneurship in the <scp>Ghana–Burkina</scp> Faso border region
Summary. A banana irrigation farming innovation that began in Burkina Faso spread to Ghana's Black Volta river valley in the 1990s, driven by returning emigrants and local university lecturers. The paper shows that local entrepreneurs, not foreign corporations, drove this agricultural intensification through imported banana varieties, entrepreneurial effort, and cross-border trade networks strengthened by regional highway infrastructure connecting farms to urban markets.
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Lobnibe, I., & Lobnibe, J. Y.. (2024). New cash cropping in the Black Volta river valley: Banana production, rural innovation, and social entrepreneurship in the <scp>Ghana–Burkina</scp> Faso border region. Culture Agriculture Food and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12317
Lobnibe, Isidore, and Jane‐Frances Yirdong Lobnibe. “New cash cropping in the Black Volta river valley: Banana production, rural innovation, and social entrepreneurship in the <scp>Ghana–Burkina</scp> Faso border region.” Culture Agriculture Food and Environment, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12317.
Lobnibe, Isidore, and Jane‐Frances Yirdong Lobnibe. 2024. “New cash cropping in the Black Volta river valley: Banana production, rural innovation, and social entrepreneurship in the <scp>Ghana–Burkina</scp> Faso border region.” Culture Agriculture Food and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12317.
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title = {New cash cropping in the Black Volta river valley: Banana production, rural innovation, and social entrepreneurship in the <scp>Ghana–Burkina</scp> Faso border region},
author = {Isidore Lobnibe and Jane‐Frances Yirdong Lobnibe},
journal = {Culture Agriculture Food and Environment},
year = {2024},
doi = {10.1111/cuag.12317},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12317}
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TY - JOUR TI - New cash cropping in the Black Volta river valley: Banana production, rural innovation, and social entrepreneurship in the <scp>Ghana–Burkina</scp> Faso border region AU - Isidore Lobnibe AU - Jane‐Frances Yirdong Lobnibe JO - Culture Agriculture Food and Environment PY - 2024 DO - 10.1111/cuag.12317 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12317 ER -
Details
- DOI
- 10.1111/cuag.12317
- Countries
- Ghana, Burkina Faso
- Regions
- Africa
- Categories
- food-systems, entrepreneurship, regional-innovation-systems
- Added
- 2026-04-28