Making Farming A Wealth-Creating Business
A centre pivot irrigation system at VegPro Ghana Ltd in the Tongu District of the Volta Region. Climate change, slow adoption rate of improved technologies, lack of access to credit, and...
Tag: Food security
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 Northern Region, at a sensitization programme on how to improve food security and...
USAID Aims To Increase Farmer Access To High-Quality Seed
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) through their joint Scaling Seeds and Technology Partnership...
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 are problems too in his home country, Ghana. One day he saw a homeless man...
Machakos Forum Urge Government Help For Women, Orphans and the Elderly
Machakos, November 16TH 2016: Orphans, older vulnerable women and people living with disabilities are groups most likely to be left behind as the government implements the sustainable development...
NAM Traditional King Comes To Aid of Starving Community
For senior citizen Elia Shaanika from Ongandjera District in northern Namibia's Omusati Region, the future seemed bleak and he did not know how he would survive next month as he faces severe food...
Amissah-Arthur In Marrakech For Climate Change Conference
Vice President K. B. Amissah-Arthur is in Marrakech, Morocco for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Dubbed COP-22, the conference has the task of drawing up the first steps on...
Calls To Prioritize Needs Of Women In Agriculture
Mr Andy Karas, USAID Mission Director for Ghana, has said the needs of women in agriculture needs to be prioritised to help boost food production, reduce poverty and increase performance in the...
Upper East Region Endowed With Huge Agricultural Potential
Mr John Manu, the Upper East Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), has said the Region is endowed with huge agricultural potential which could be exploited for the...
Uganda Braces For Tough Times As Climate Change Bites
Uganda has warned that the persistent drought has placed over 7 million people at risk. As experts meet in Morocco this week for the UN Climate Change summit, the East African country said climate...
USAID-RING Feed the Future Project Thrives In Northern Region
Over 2,000 female beneficiaries of the United States Department for International Development (USAID) Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Feed the Future mission, have started harvesting 100 acres of...
How Smart Policies Can Lessen Effects Of Climate Change
According to a famous African proverb, “When the music changes, so does the dance.” This adage illustrates the continent’s current position amidst opportunities for, and challenges to,...
JICA Intervention Boosts Rice Production In Northern Region
The Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) Project for Sustainable Development of Rainfed Lowland Rice Production has led to a boost in rice production in the Northern Region. Mr William...
Ghanaians Urged To Increase Use Of Technology
Dr. Jerry John Kponyo, a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for increasing drift towards the use of technology to grow the country’s agriculture....
Mixed Reactions Greet BoG’s GH¢100m Agric Guarantee
Actors in the agriculture sector are reacting variously to Bank of Ghana’s initiative to attract funding to the sector, with some commenters asking for direct cash transfers to farmers, whilst...
Agric GDP Decline Is Normal – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has defended the decline in the contribution of agricultural to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), describing the situation as “very normal” in the case of every...
CPP To Reduce Tolls Paid By Market Women
The Presidential Candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has campaigned in three constituencies in the Eastern Region, promising to drastically reduce tolls...
Sustainable Agriculture Deserves Center Stage In Marrakech
By José Graziano da Silva Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Agriculture, including forestry and fisheries, is the sector most threatened by climate change....
Cereal And Grains Production Given Boost
The Afigya-Kwabre District has taken steps to increase the production of the cereals, grains and cassava to ensure food security in the area. Mr. Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire, the District Chief...
Afigya-Kwabre Takes Steps To Increase Cereal and Grains Production
The Afigya-Kwabre District has taken steps to increase the production of the cereals, grains and cassava to ensure food security in the area. Mr. Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire, the District Chief...