Food politics

News

Ghana To Pass National Food Donors Encouragement Bill

Chairman for Parliamentary select committee on Food, agriculture and Member of Parliament for Berekum West, Hon. Kwaku...

Business

Government Institutions To Mandatorily Buy Local Foodstuff

The government has directed all schools, hospitals and other state institutions to mandatorily buy foodstuff from local...

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...

Business

Poor Packaging Affects Competitiveness In Sub-Sahara Africa

Poor packaging in Ghana is one of the main reasons for the failure of locally manufactured food products to establish...

News

Ghana To Benefit From National Food Packaging Centre

Ghana is to benefit from a National Food Packaging Centre being proposed by the ‘Improving Food Packaging for Small...

Top Stories

More Than 100 Million People To Face Severe Food Insecurity

Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food...

Business

NGO Embarks On Campaign To Promote Cultivation, Consumption of Local Crops

The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) has embarked on a campaign to promote the...

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...

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

Former President Determine To Eliminate Hunger

The John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation has launched the “Ghana Zero Hunger” Strategic Review to identify the gaps in...

Top Stories

NORDESO Implements 5-Year Advocacy Project In Northern Region

The Northern Development Society (NORDESO), has begun a five-year advocacy project dubbed: “Voice for Change (V4C)”...

Top Stories

Grameen Ghana Sensitizes Stakeholders On Food Security, Nutrition

Grameen Ghana, has interacted with stakeholders in some selected communities in the Nanumba North district of the...

Top Stories

A Ghanaian Chef Works Against Waste To Feed the Hungry

Excess and waste are usually considered symptomatic of the affluent West but trained chef Elijah Amoo Addo knows these...

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...

International

1.3 Million Kenyans In 23 Counties Are In Need of Food Aid

1.3 million Kenyans in 23 counties are in need of food aid - Report Despite the progress Kenya has made in reducing...

Top Stories

SDG To End Hunger By 2030 Unfeasible – Global Hunger Index

The global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) deadline...

Top Stories

Sustainable Rice Systems Development In Sub-Saharan Africa Project Underway

Ten countries (Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, the United Republic of...