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YouthMappers: Navigating the

Ghanaian Soy Value Chain

Webinar

Monday, February 11, 2019

11 a.m. – 12 p.m. CDT

Meet the Panelists

Anna BrenesData StewardGIS Data Management and SupportUSAID Bureau for Food Security

Chad BlevinsSenior Geospatial Analyst USAID GeoCenter

Carrie StokesSenior Geospatial AnalystChief Geographer & DirectorUSAID GeoCenter

Peter GoldsmithPrincipal Investigator & DirectorFeed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab

Courtney TamimieAssociate DirectorFeed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab

Confidence Kpodo, University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Ebenezer Boateng (Boat) University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Faustina Lina YeboahUniversity of Cape Coast, Ghana

Daniel OseiUniversity of Cape Coast, Ghana

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Catholic Relief Services – Ghana

team

Led by Mawuli Asigbee (center,

right, blue shirt) – Agricultural

Programs Manager, CRS-Ghana

and Philip Atiim (center, right of

Mawuli) – Agricultural Program

Offices, CRS-Ghana

Instrumental in facilitating field

interviews and data collection for

YouthMappers UCC teamMawuli Asigbee (center right, blue shirt) and Philip Atiim

(right of Mawuli) with SIL socio-economic and gender researchers

JAMES KWEKU ESHUN

December 1968 – December

2018

Patron of the UCC students

Geographical Association

Faculty Advisor, UCC

YouthMappers Teacher

Role model

Father

Counsellor

Listener

Selfless

Legend

FRANCIS DEBRAH

August 1996 – January 2019

Third year Geography student

Organizer, UCC

YouthMappers

Member of SIL – YM project in

Kumasi

Jovial

Dedicated

Selfless

Adventurous

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Carrie StokesSenior Geospatial AnalystChief Geographer & DirectorUSAID GeoCenter

What isYouthMappers?

www.youthmappers.org

MEET THE TEAM

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

Introduction

Methodology

Results and Discussion

Field Challenges

INTRODUCTION

Protein for human diet and feed

for livestock and fish

For Ghana, this crop is

relatively new

Scale of production

Attention

Ghana’s soy value chain

GHANA’S SOY VALUE CHAIN

77% of soy comes from

Northern Ghana

90% of processors is in the

middle belt

Most consumers lie in the South

and middle

Cumulative 59,000MT does not

meet the demands

INTERACTIONS WITH DR GOLDSMITH

Insight on the soy cultivation

in Ghana and other world ‘’The Market for maize, rice, soy and

warehousing in Northern Ghana’’

Onset of the formulation of

research hypothesis

A draft of the interview

guide for data collection

INTRODUCTION CONTINUED

Hypothesis

1. What influence do

processors have on the

price of soy in the market?

2. What influence the siting of

processing facilities in

Kumasi?

STUDY AREA

Lies south of the middle belt

Second most populous city

Capital of the Ashanti Kingdom.

Capital of the KMA

A major commercial centre

given its location

Markets

Transit point

TARGET POPULATION & SAMPLING

Target Population Managers of agro-processing

facilities

Feed mixers

Poultry farmers

Sampling

Purposive

Catholic Relief Services

Snowballing

KOBO TOOLBOX

Collect GPS locations

Take a photographs

Collect data offline

Sync data immediately or later

Collect data on paper form and

data

entry on browser

Collect on mobile devices

Design your own digital forms

without programming

VARIABLES OF INTEREST

• Interview Guide

– Price of soy

– Source

– Storage capacity

– Yearly output

• Observation checklist

– Nature of road to facility

– Protective clothing worn

– Condition of processing

equipment

FIELD DATA COLLECTION BY UCC YM

Research team using Kobo in the field

ANALYSIS AND DATA MANAGEMENT

Develop summary report

Visualize data on map

Export data in other file

format

Disaggregation of data

collected

HOT TASKING MANAGER

Remote mapping

Silos

processing facilities

Smokestacks

Warehouses

industrial areas

PRIOR ANALYSIS

Transcription

Preliminary results & Skype calls

with Rosemary Keane and Dr.

Goldsmith

RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS

SOURCE OF RAW SOY

Three Northern Regions

Processors engage

aggregators

100 kg soy bags are

plagued with Stones in bags

Sticks

Dirt or sand

PRICE OF LOCAL SOY

Standard weight was 100kg

No two prices were the same

Relationship with aggregators

Cost of Transport

Local price ranged from GH 130

cedis ($26.9 USD) to GH 300

cedis ($61.9 USD)

STORAGE FACILITIES

2 out of 8 processors had an

exclusive storage facilities for

soy

Observed storage facility

ranged from 55 to 75,000 tons

Proportion of soy was about

25% of storage space

Processors still experience

annual shortage

RELIANCE ON IMPORTED SOY

No processor imported soy

Depend on private agro-importers Argentina, Brazil, USA

No difference in quality

Preferred the solvent extraction

method to the mechanized method

OTHER CONCERNS OF PROCESSORS

Transportation

Difficulty in accessing credit

Issues of interrupted power

supply

FIELD CHALLENGES

Noncompliance of some

participants Allowing team unto their

compound

Hesitant in offering some responses

Declining tour of facility

Difficulties in accessing the

facilities as a result of: Long travelling distance

Poor road conditions

Learnings from the YouthMappers study in Ghana: What do these findings mean for GIS in the soy value

chain?

Dr. Peter Goldsmith, DirectorSoybean Innovation Lab

YouthMappers: Navigating the Ghanaian Soy Value Chain

Webinar February 2019

My friend James

Storage: the key to managing spatial risk!!

1. University of Cape Coast StudentsMapping is easy…mapping for impact requires work

2. USAIDYouth, Development, and the burgeoning knowledge economy

3. YouthMappersNot just theory anymore; industrial clustering makes sense: the case of soy

4. The Soybean Innovation Lab and its partner Catholic Relief ServicesA new paper from SIL on soybean markets supported by YouthMappers evidence

Learnings: Four Levels

University of Cape Coast StudentsMapping is easy…mapping for impact requires work

• A basic research question began the study…

– Why is processing located in the Center, the raw material in the North, and the consumers in the South

• Seemed counter intuitive

• To answer this question students realized they needed to do real work

• …To do that they needed to

– Structure their research question into testable hypotheses

– Triangulate to look at the same question from multiple sides-primary and secondary data collection

– Get their hands dirty- leave their computers- talk to the managers

– Be prepared, be on time and organized, and know their subject before asking questions in the field

– Read the report…what an education UCC delivered

Learnings from the field

Moving from the maps to the field!!

• Assessing the effectiveness of inter-regional trade in Ghana’s soybean markets– Edward Martey, Nicolas Gatti, and Peter

Goldsmith– Are Ghana soybean prices orderly and

consistent with international markets?– Yes

• YM confirmation that price in Ghana driven by– Kumasi…thanks to YM because it is the

processing (buy) center– Tamale…thanks to YM because it is the

producing (supply) center – International markets because soybean

is a global commodity

Kumasi sits at the center of the national soybean-poultry value chain

The Soybean Innovation Lab and its partner Catholic Relief ServicesA new paper from SIL on soybean markets supported by YM evidence

Learnings from the field

Backup generators are expensive

Not just theory anymore. Industrial clustering makes sense: the case of soy

• Space really matters for industrial firms• Industrial firms buy lots of inputs…so may not just be about

one…soy• Other grains• Transport• Electricity• Fuel• Labor• Parts

• Clustering with other industrial firms makes sense-• Taxes, regulation, and policy too

• Close to markets makes sense• Clustering with poultry and feed

YouthMappers

Learnings from the field

• USAID recognizes the criticality of youth engagement for successful development– Job creation, rural economic development,

slowing out-migration, promoting national food security

• YouthMappers reflects smart development– Training the workforce for the knowledge

economy (GIS & regional planning)– Excellent gender balance– Local production of new knowledge- by

Ghanaians for Ghanaians– Numerous multipliers- private sector mapping,

drone demand, precision agriculture

Laptops open and students engaged!!

Learnings from the field

USAIDYouth, Development, and the burgeoning knowledge economy

Why work with YouthMappers to collect data needed for monitoring

and evaluating food security programs?

• Tech savvy

• Curious and open minded/Peer-to-peer knowledge sharing

• Willingness (and ability) to interact with their communities –

knowledgeable about cultural sensitivities/languages/customs

• Opportunities to build capacity of YouthMappers Chapters

• Capture data in the field where gaps exist and data collection

is challenging

BUREAU FOR FOOD SECURITY AND

YOUTHMAPPERS

YOUTHMAPPERS CAPACITY BUILDING

Fellowships

Leadership Workshop 2017, Nepal

Research Fellowship 2018, USA

LOCAL YOUTHMAPPERS PROJECTS

Urban Waste Cleanup in Akure, Nigeria

“Without anywhere to go with their trash, most households just contribute to the issue, piling waste around their neighborhoods.” — Temidayo Isaiah 2018, YouthMappers

RWANDA CASE STUDY:Presidents Malaria Initiative: Indoor Residual Spraying

UGANDA CASE STUDY:Saving Mothers Giving Life Accessibility Analysis

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Question & Answer Session with Panelists

Anna BrenesData StewardGIS Data Management and SupportUSAID Bureau for Food Security

Chad BlevinsSenior Geospatial Analyst USAID GeoCenter

Carrie StokesSenior Geospatial AnalystChief Geographer & DirectorUSAID GeoCenter

Peter GoldsmithPrincipal Investigator & DirectorFeed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab

Courtney TamimieAssociate DirectorFeed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab

Confidence Kpodo, University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Ebenezer Boateng (Boat) University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Faustina Lina YeboahUniversity of Cape Coast, Ghana

Daniel OseiUniversity of Cape Coast, Ghana

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