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ArticleJournal of agriculture and food research2025

Patterns of systemic problems in Ghana's poultry value chain: A group model building approach.

Joshua Aboah, Dolapo Enahoro, Charles Mensah, Nana Adwoa Agyemang, Ebenezer Kondo, Desmond Ayertey

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Article in Journal of agriculture and food research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Joshua AboahWorldFish, Inclusive Aquatic Food Market Systems Team, Nairobi, Kenya.
Dolapo EnahoroInternational Livestock Research Institute, People, Policies and Institutions Program, C/o IWMI-Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Charles MensahInternational Livestock Research Institute, People, Policies and Institutions Program, C/o IWMI-Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Nana Adwoa AgyemangInternational Livestock Research Institute, People, Policies and Institutions Program, C/o IWMI-Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Ebenezer KondoGhana Atomic Energy Commission- Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute, Kwabenya, Accra, Ghana.
Desmond AyerteyUniversity of Ghana, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Accra, Ghana.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ghana's poultry sector faces different interrelated systemic challenges, often diagnosed in isolation, leading to interventions that neglect unintended consequences across the value chain. Consequently, a holistic prognosis of the impact of these systemic problems that considers the different facets of the poultry industry is required. This paper aims to examine the system archetypes emerging from the inherent industry-level and farm-level problems in Ghana's poultry sector. Adopting a participatory group model building process, causal loop diagrams and feedback loop analyses were applied to understand the interacting factors in four systemic problems prioritised by stakeholders in Ghana's poultry value chain. Four causal loop diagrams were mapped for these systemic problems;

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Agricultural policyCausal loop diagramChickenSystems thinking

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PMCPMC11921041

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