The participants discussed the current trends and future trajectories of industrial crops in Ghana, such as cotton, oil palm, sugarcane and cocoa. Presentations were given by FICESSA members Alexandros Gasparatos (University of Tokyo, Japan), Steve Wiggins (Overseas Development Institute, UK), Osamu Saito (United Nations University, Japan), Yaw Agyeman Boafo (University of Ghana, Ghana), Abubakari Ahmed (University of Tokyo), Eric Dompreh (University of Tokyo), and Channing Arndt (International Food Policy Research Institute, USA).
A summary of the workshop as reported by one of the main daily newspapers of Ghana can be found here.