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The plan to restrict importation of some food items could raise food prices. Cristina Aldehuela/AFP via Getty Images

January 22, 2024

Ghana wants to make importing food like rice and tomatoes more costly: expert explains why it’s a bad idea

Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, University of Guelph

Ghana’s industries need fewer production constraints and more incentives to compete domestically.

Imports are key to Ghana’s food security. Wikimedia Commons/Flickr

November 29, 2023

Ghana wants to restrict imports on 22 products – an economist explains how, why and what else must be done

Adu Owusu Sarkodie, University of Ghana

The policy is the latest strategy to grow Ghana’s weak industrial base.

A large African male lion in a game reserve at night. Sunshine Seeds/Shutterstock

August 10, 2022

Trophy hunting: why a UK import ban threatens wildlife conservation

Amy Dickman, University of Oxford

Bans on importing hunting trophies risk harming, not helping, endangered species.

Alex Plavevski/EPA/AAP

February 9, 2021

It might look like China is winning the trade war, but its import bans are a diplomacy fail

Melissa Conley Tyler, The University of Melbourne

China’s import restrictions hurt Australia, but they also hurt China. In more ways than one.

Top contributors

Adu Owusu Sarkodie
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Ghana
Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor
Associate Professor of Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
Melissa Conley Tyler
Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
Amy Dickman
Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Oxford