Thousands of women in rural communities in Central and West Africa are reaping the rewards from Nestle’s agricultural support and capacity-building programmes to increase their yields, crop quality...
Donald Trump, lagging behind Hillary Clinton in polls, has outlined what he would do in his first 100 days were he to become US president. With 17 days until the election, much of the recent focus...
Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez have built a friendship over the years that includes some brilliant collaborations, so when Armando Pérez was asked about working with the "Dance Again" singer he had a...
Emergency talks are under way in Brussels in an effort to save an EU free trade deal with Canada (Ceta), blocked by a Belgian region. European Parliament head Martin Schulz is to hold separate talks...
The Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research says Ghana has the potential to become Africa’s leader in tomato production, if greenhouse farming is expanded. Director of crop Research at CSIR,...
Famine looms in the Akatsi North district of the Volta Region as farmers are battling an armyworm infestation on their farms. About six acres of maize and cassava farms have already been destroyed in...
The country has no strategic plan or priority for the cultivation of plantain and its value chain, although its production is viable for the country to consider both for local consumption and for...
A Sustainable Land and Water Management (SLWM) project in Ghana’s northern savannah zone is contributing to enhanced food security and increased climate resilience of the beneficiary communities....
Your Excellency President Mahama, I trust this letter finds you doing well and hearty. The purpose of this letter is to draw your attention to a couple of issues for your information and...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ghana Grains Council held the 6th annual Pre-harvest Agribusiness Forum in Sunyani on Thursday, October 20. The event brought...
For decades sand wining and gravel extraction have become prevalent along the coast, where fishing is predominant. The combined effect of the sand winning and stone extraction is resulting in the...
The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, FAO said today in a new report. Agriculture,...
Brazilian prosecutors are charging 21 people with qualified homicide, a year after an iron ore mine disaster in the state of Minas Gerais. They include several Brazilians, two Americans, a South...
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has presented to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture a dummy key to the three-bedroom house for this year’s National Best Farmer. The house, which will be...
The anger of the Ashanti region house of chiefs was stretched to its limits when the Ashanti regional minister John Alexander Ackon and the Minister of Environment Science, Technology and Innovation...
The Minority Spokesperson on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has made an allegation against the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government that the latter...
Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has proven that indeed he is a leader who, in face of all the machinations of opposition to distort facts, is able to explain issues to deflate the falsehood being...
To ensure trade facilitation and harmonisation in the sub-region, the World Bank, in collaboration with ECOWAS, are calling for reforms at the Tema Port under a European Union funded Improved and...
Stakeholders in the rice industry have urged the private sector to heighten their interest in domestic rice production by investing more in the sector. This was said at the 3rd Ghana Rice Festival...
President Mahama has promised to ensure that construction works on the Eastern corridor roads are completed on time. He made the promise during a 3-day campaign tour of the region, specifically...
