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Business

Inflation To Increase To 13.3% In May 2017

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is expected to announce the consumer price inflation for the month of May 2017 in the...

News

FAO, WAHO Sign Agreement To Support Health Development

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and the West Africa Health Organisation (WAHO) have...

Headlines

Mideast Conflicts Leave Millions Unsure of Next Meal

The devastating conflicts gripping the Middle East and North Africa have left 30 million people unsure of their next...

Headlines

UN Releases $22 Million To Fight Famine Threat In Somalia

The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million (20.3 million euros) in a bid to prevent another...

Headlines

UN Urges China To Act As Bird Flu Deaths Spike

The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has...

International

Armyworm Outbreak Could ‘spread’

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is concerned that the armyworm outbreak could...

International

Food Prices Soar In Drought-Hit Countries

Drought in East Africa has led to a sharp increase in the price of staple foods, raising fears that hunger will worsen,...

Top Stories

Five Million Cedis Secured To Start Agricultural Census

The Ghana Statistical Service has secured some funding to embark on a nationwide agricultural census to collect data on...

Top Stories

Genetic Diversity-The Pillar To Food Security and Agricultural Productivity

Population expansion coupled with urbanisation of fertile agricultural lands together with modernisation in every...

Opinion

Genetic Diversity-The Pillar To Food Security And Agricultural Productivity

Population expansion coupled with urbanisation of fertile agricultural lands together with modernisation in every...

Top Stories

Annual UG New Year School and Conference Opens Today

Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo will be the special guest of honour at the opening of the 68th Annual New Year...

Top Stories

Annual UG New Year School and Conference Opens Today

Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo will be the special guest of honour at the opening of the 68th Annual New Year...

Top Stories

Ghana Needs More Women In Political Positions

Ghanaian’s Ambassador to Italy, Molly Anim-Addo, has called for more participation of women in politics to enable...

Opinion

Sustainable Agriculture Deserves Center Stage In Marrakech

By José Graziano da Silva Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Agriculture,...

Opinion

We Are Kiiling The Goose That Lays The Golden EGG

This year’s farmers’ day will be celebrated on Friday 4th November, 2016 and a fair, passionate and objective...

Business

Agric Has Big Role In Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems...

Business

Food Insecurity To Hit Ghana If…

Rural women in Ghana say despite their key role in the agricultural sector, they have been sidelined in the...

Politics

Food Insecurity To Hit Ghana If… Women In Farming Warn

Rural women in Ghana say despite their key role in the agricultural sector, they have been sidelined in the...

Politics

Growing Food the Sustainable Smart Way To Beat Climate Change

World Food Day 2016 has the global message: “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.” This echoes...