OUR FELLOWS
Freda Elikplim Asem was born and raised in Accra, Ghana, where her parents, both educators, taught their five children early in life about the importance of education—and she heeded their advice. She earned a BSc in Agriculture at the University of Ghana, and then moved to Edmonton, where she completed an MSc in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Alberta.
In Ghana, 70 percent of farmers are smallholders, and the demand for horticultural produce is very high. Why, as a country, can’t we meet the demand? Is it because farmers aren’t producing efficiently? That’s one of the issues that I’m trying to resolve.
Field of Research
I hope to reach a point where I can contribute to formulating and implementing policies to help them. I want to help the small guys get the information they need to compete against the big farms.