As the global community turns attention and focus towards a green growth pathway, the African Forest Forum (AFF) is exploring avenues to improve forest management in a manner that better addresses poverty eradication and environmental protection in Africa. The AFF, a pan-African non-governmental organization, is implementing a project titled: “Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management in Africa” … Read more
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is expected to announce the consumer price inflation for the month of May 2017 in the coming days. The year-on year inflation rate measured by the CPI with 2012 as the base year with an index of 100 stood at 13.0% in April 2017 as against the 12.80% recorded for March … Read more
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and the West Africa Health Organisation (WAHO) have signed a partnership agreement to support common visions of health development, food, nutrition and biodiversity. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of a five-day Forum on Public Private Partnership in health for the ECOWAS region, which … Read more
The devastating conflicts gripping the Middle East and North Africa have left 30 million people unsure of their next meal, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said. “Food security and nutrition levels in the Near East and North Africa have sharply deteriorated over the last five years,” the agency said in a report released Monday. … Read more
The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million (20.3 million euros) in a bid to prevent another famine in drought and crisis-hit Somalia, its food agency said Tuesday. The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is releasing the funds to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the hope it will help stave … Read more
The UN’s food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that countries neighbouring China were at “high risk” of exposure to the H7N9 strain, which has recently mutated to … Read more
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is concerned that the armyworm outbreak could spread to the whole of southern Africa, threatening crops. So far, seven of the 15 states which make up the regional body Sadc have been affected by the outbreak. The FAO says Zimbabwe might be the hardest hit, … Read more
Drought in East Africa has led to a sharp increase in the price of staple foods, raising fears that hunger will worsen, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said, Reuters news agency reports. The cost of staple cereals have doubled in some markets, reaching record and near-record levels in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, … Read more
The Ghana Statistical Service has secured some funding to embark on a nationwide agricultural census to collect data on farmers, farm size and crops cultivated for decision making. The project should have started in 2014 but was delayed due to lack of funds. The Ministry of Food and Agriculture estimates that, it will need a … Read more
Population expansion coupled with urbanisation of fertile agricultural lands together with modernisation in every aspect of human daily activities which create biodiversity are getting eroded in direct and indirect ways. Deforestation, land degradation, coastal development as well as environmental stress collectively lead to large scale extinction of plant species, more importantly, agricultural food crops, which … Read more
Population expansion coupled with urbanisation of fertile agricultural lands together with modernisation in every aspect of human daily activities which create biodiversity are getting eroded in direct and indirect ways. Deforestation, land degradation, coastal development as well as environmental stress collectively lead to large scale extinction of plant species, more importantly, agricultural food crops, which … Read more
Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo will be the special guest of honour at the opening of the 68th Annual New Year School and Conference of the University of Ghana. The theme for the conference is “Promoting National Development Through Agricultural Modernization : The Role of ICT.” Organised by the School of Continuing and Distance Education, under … Read more
Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo will be the special guest of honour at the opening of the 68th Annual New Year School and Conference of the University of Ghana. The theme for the conference is “Promoting National Development Through Agricultural Modernization : The Role of ICT.” Organised by the School of Continuing and Distance Education, under … Read more
Ghanaian’s Ambassador to Italy, Molly Anim-Addo, has called for more participation of women in politics to enable them to forcefully project their concerns. She said the country’s governance structure should make it easier for women to enter politics without being hindered by social stigma that politics was a dirty game. In an exclusive interview with … Read more
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. At the same time, the agricultural sectors produce a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The transformation of the agricultural sectors to address climate change for adaptation … Read more
This year’s farmers’ day will be celebrated on Friday 4th November, 2016 and a fair, passionate and objective minded columnist like me, would certainly make time and space to celebrate our gallant but poor majority farmers. Farmers spend all their time in the field even under hostile weather conditions just to ensure that there is … Read more
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, including forestry, fisheries and livestock production, generate around a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture must both contribute more … Read more
Rural women in Ghana say despite their key role in the agricultural sector, they have been sidelined in the implantation of certain government policies. Their concern is coming at a time rural women across Africa are being empowered to remain in agriculture so as to secure food for the future. The Africa Lead project is … Read more
Rural women in Ghana say despite their key role in the agricultural sector, they have been sidelined in the implantation of certain government policies. Their concern is coming at a time rural women across Africa are being empowered to remain in agriculture so as to secure food for the future. The Africa Lead project is … Read more
World Food Day 2016 has the global message: “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.” This echoes weather-related disasters hitting vulnerable farmers, fishers and pastoralists in Africa. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, growing food in a sustainable way means adopting practices that produce more with less in … Read more