.... Melinda Smale can be contacted at: msmale@msu.edu Empirical research has demonstrated that women are actors throughout the cowpea value chains of West Africa. Langyintuo et al. (2003) found them as assemblers buying from farmers in village centers and roadsides. Mishili et al...

... rice value chains (RVCs) in West Africa (WA) and Ghana in particular, import rice sub-VCs (IRVCs) are on a growth trajectory that threatens the survival of local rice sub-VCs (LRVCs) in which small producers, processors and traders operate (Soullier et al., 2020). This threat...