Mr. Dela Gadzanku, the Volta/Eastern Chair of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), has said the interest of the youth in entrepreneurial opportunities remained weak despite government and stakeholder efforts.
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Livestock, Poultry and Fisheries, Training & Trade Show to Step Up Growth and Production Performance.
Last year 2019, The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, launched the Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJ) programme in Wa in the Upper West Region.
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MOAP trains Women at UWR on rice parboiling techniques.
The Market Oriented Agriculture Programme (MOAP) in North West Ghana, has provided rice parboiling training techniques for 35 women in the Upper West Region to help improve the quality of parboiling rice produce to access markets and better prices.
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Rethinking China’s Participation in African Agricultural Development in the Post-COVID-19 Era.
Africa was already facing food insecurity and agricultural underdevelopment prior to COVID-19. In 2018 studies showed that Sub-Saharan Africa was the world’s most food-insecure region, hosting 239 million undernourished population. Although many African countries are proactive in boosting agricultural production and protecting their food supply by raising crop productivity and reducing their sensitivity to weather conditions, it is clear that COVID-19 will derail these processes.
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Rice farmers at Fumbisi appeal for combine harvesters.
Rice farmers at Fumbisi in the Builsa South District of the Upper East Region are appealing to the government to support them with combined harvesters to harvest their rice this year.
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Is There Any Link – Increased Local Value Addition And Cocoa Farmers’ Income?
Anytime, the topics of low income and worsening livelihood of cocoa farmers are raised in Ghana, people mistakenly assume Ghana to be the cocoa farmer and thus they argue that Ghana needs to add value to its cocoa beans to improve its farmers’ livelihoods.
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The Current Situation of Rainfall in Ghana: A Threat to Food Security.
Food security according to the UN’s Committee on World Food Security means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The major threats to food security are Climate change, Population growth, rising food prices, and Post-harvest losses. About 805 million people are not food secured and the majority of these are in developing countries, whereas Ghana belongs.
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Ghana’s credibility on the International Timber Market at stake- CSOs
Civil Society Organizations are calling on the Forestry Commission, the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, and the Parliament of Ghana to undertake their respective responsibilities as mandated by the law and convert extant leases and permits to validate the timber utilization contracts to allow for the successful issuance of FLEGT license before the end of 2020.
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Anglogold Ashanti Iduapriem embarks on US$400,000 aquaculture project.
To create a sustainable future of shared value with all stakeholders, AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has implemented, among other things, an Aquaculture project to address unemployment within its host communities.
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Tomato farmers at Kpaankole decry of the poor road network.
Young farmers, especially tomato farmers in Kpaankole have lamented over the excessive post-harvest losses due to the deplorable road network.
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