The Prize-Winning Tech Helping Ghana’s Farmers To Grow
Agyei Douglas is a farmer who grows vegetables near Kumasi in Ghana's central Ashanti region. He used to struggle to ...
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GDCA, Partners To Establish Soya Bean Factories In Northern Region
Ahead of government’s implementation of the much touted one-district-one-factory policy, the Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA), in partnership with the ...
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 Agyenim-Boateng has lauded ...
Experts Seek Ways To Consolidate West Africa’s Food Security
Stakeholders and Agricultural experts from the West African countries converged here on Tuesday for a Two-Day consultative meeting seeking ways ...
Reliable Climate, Weather Data Key To Africa’s Agric Transformation [Article]
Though it has about 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa’s net food import is predicted to grow from ...
11% Use of Improved Seeds Threat To Ghana’s Food Security
The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has indicated the use of improved seeds by maize farmers ...
Three Ministries To Buy Foodstuffs From Government’s Agric Programme
As part of measures to provide market for tonnes of food expected from the Planting for Food and Jobs programme, ...
Gov’t Commended For ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ Program
The immediate past President of the Peasant Farmers Association, Mohammed Adam Nashiru has commended the government for reintroducing the “Planting ...
Ghana Steps Up Efforts To Avert Food Insecurity
As Ghana steps up efforts to avert food insecurity, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has launched a five ...
Former Deputy Minister Lauds Gov’t For ‘Planting For Jobs’ Programme
Acting Executive Director of Savannah Ecological Development (SED) has lauded government’s initiative of planting food for jobs indicating that it ...
‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ Will Fail – Lecturer
The “Planting for food and jobs” campaign which was launched by the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last week may ...
ADB Releases GHC450m For Agric In 2017; GHC150m For Planting For Food & Jobs
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), has announced a total of GH¢450 million to, among other initiatives, support the government’s ‘Planting ...
ADB Releases GHC 450m To Support Planting For Food and Jobs Programme
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has announced a total of GH450 million to among other initiatives support the government’s ‘Planting ...
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 ...
Drought, Conflict and Famine In Africa
Drought and conflict have pushed the Horn of Africa, Nigeria and Yemen to the brink of famine, and a lack ...
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 insecure in 2016. ...
USAID Event Strengthens Agribusiness In Northern Ghana
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the US government’s Feed the Future Initiative and the National Seed ...
Bongo District Smallholder Farmers Exploit Indigenous Farming Technologies
Some Smallholder farmers in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region are exploiting indigenous farming technologies to preserve their ...
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 ...
Act Now To Help Starving Children In East Africa
Sir Mo Farah has said it "breaks his heart" to hear how families are facing starvation in East Africa as ...