Achieving Food Security through Efficient Warehousing: Case Study of Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Ghana (Published)
Research acknowledges that more than 50% of food crops produced in Ghana do not reach the final consumer due to Post-Harvest Losses. Particular attention was then needed for integrated food production and efficient warehousing to achieving food security – during and after bumper harvests. However, warehousing as a means to ensuring food security has received little attention in contemporal studies serving as a gap in literature. The paper addresses this by highlighting Ghana IPEP initiative to suggest ideal cultural practices to aid efficient running of IPEP warehouses to achieving food security in Ghana. This research took a form of a thorough review on several literatures relevant to this discourse. The paper finally proposes introduction of ‘unique identification system as well as double supervision’ as part of key practices to achieving efficiency in IPEP warehouses. There is therefore a need for an experimental study to attest the influence of the said practices on achieving warehouse operational efficiency- within and /or without the IPEP.
Keywords: Cultural Practices, Food Security, Ghana, IPEP, warehousing