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
A flock of birds chirp endlessly. Tall trees nearby whisper breezes and chainsaw roars a stone throw away. Shrubs and climbers envelope stumps and wild grasses bloom. The sun is hot, the breeze is cold but the ground is wet with giant footprints of tractors. This is the Kweikaru Forest Reserve where giant trees have … Read more
A project to plant 10,000 trees nationwide has commenced at the Ningo Senior High School (NINSEC) at Ningo-Prampram in the Greater Accra Region. An initiative of Memory Tree Initiative, an NGO committed to commemorative tree planting to combat global warming, the project is in partnership with the School on whose premises 1,000 acacia trees have … Read more
Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources on Thursday expressed government’s commitment to institute measures to reverse the ascendancy of forest degradation to ensure sustainable cocoa production. He said the Government would adopt holistic and multifaceted approaches in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders to reduce the rate of deforestation. The Minister … Read more
The World Bank has signed a grant agreement with Solidarity West Africa for Natural Resources Management in 53 selected local communities of the Brong-Ahafo and Western Regions of Ghana. The US$5.5 million grant of the Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Local Communities project (G-DGM) from Climate Investment Fund (CIF) partnership, is to strengthen their knowledge … Read more
The World Bank signed a grant agreement with Solidaridad West Africa for Natural Resources Management in 53 selected local communities of the Brong-Ahafo and Western Regions of Ghana, Friday. The US$5.5 million grant of the Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Local Communities project (G-DGM) from Climate Investment Fund (CIF) partnership, is to strengthen their knowledge … Read more
A seven member Ghana government delegation is attending the 12Th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF12) at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Led by Professor Bruce Banoeng-Yakubu, Chief Director of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR), it includes Mr. Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, (FC) … Read more
Everywhere you look headlines scream #Stop Galamsey Now! But, if you have lived in a place in Ghana where ‘Galamsey’ (i.e. artisanal/small-scale gold mining) is immense, you have seen it all. • Water bodies pollution; land and forest degradation; • Livelihood impact and poverty due to lack of jobs; • Health &safety risks e.g. risks … Read more
Inadequate funding and high attrition rate are some of the challenges confronting research activities at the Forestry Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The research institute has lost 36 workers to retirement and competition in the last three years. The Forestry Research Institute is one of the 13 institutes of … Read more
Ghana has received approval for $24 million for the first-of-a-kind Private-Public Partnership project to restore degraded forest reserves and double a sustainable forest plantation. This project is backed by a $10-million concessional loan from the Climate Investment Funds’ Forest Investment Program (CIF FIP) approved on July 1, and supplemented by $14 million in co-financing from … Read more
Ghana has received approval from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for a project to restore degraded forest reserves and double a sustainable forest plantation through a first-of-its-kind Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in its forest sector. The project is backed by a US $10-million concessional loan from the Climate Investment Funds’ Forest Investment Program (CIF FIP) approved … Read more
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under its five year project to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country’s cocoa landscape, has in the past two years supplied 800,000 economic tree seedlings to more than 6,000 farmers in growing areas of the cash crop. The project named the “Environment Sustainability and Policy for … Read more