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Women farmers call for inclusion in agricultural policy, resource allocation

... — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:51:10 +0000

The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Ghana) has held a Regional Stakeholders’ meeting on Agricultural Policy Advocacy in Tamale, to strengthen women’s participation and leadership in agricultural policy and economic decision-making. The engagement formed part of an ongoing project titled: “Strengthening Women’s Voice and Leadership in Agricultural Policy and Economic Justice in Northern Ghana,” supported […]

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33% of children stunted in Northern Region as Karaga faces severe food insecurity

... — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:12:53 +0000

The 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) for the Northern Region shows that 33 percent of children under five suffer from stunted growth, while 11 percent are underweight. The same statistics indicated that anaemia affected 71 percent of children aged 6–59 months and 53 percent of women of reproductive age. Food security analysis The […]

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SWIDA-Ghana empowers women to champion agricultural policy reform

... — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:54:27 +0000

The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Ghana), a non-governmental organisation, has held a training workshop aimed at strengthening the advocacy capacity of women groups to enhance their participation in agriculture and other economic activities. The Leadership and Agricultural Policy Advocacy Training is part of a project titled “Strengthening Women’s Voice and Leadership in Agricultural Policy […]

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Climate Gender Equity Fund (Grant US$100,000 to US$300,000,)

... — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 20:40:07 +0000

Deadline:6th October 2023 at 11:59PM EDT. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the support of Amazon, has launched the Climate Gender Equity Fund (CGEF, or the Fund) – a public-private partnership to leverage funding to scale climate finance that advances gender equitable climate action. GEF’s grantmaking will be managed by 2X Global, an international non-profit […]

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United States Government to boost dry season farming in Ghana with $7m initiative

... — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:57:21 +0000

The United States Government is supporting some 17,000 Ghanaian farmers with a $7 million fund project to be resilient during lean season, spanning from June to August 2023. The USAID one-year Farmer Support Activity would be implemented through a well-designed cash transfer system to be disbursed in two tranches in partnership with the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme […]

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National Union of Ghana Students holds summit on SDGs

... — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:22:06 +0000

The Local Chapter of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale Campus, has held its annual summit to discuss and strategise on measures to achieve gender equality and empower women for sustainable national development. The summit provided the platform for young leaders, youth activists, and other gender […]

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Ghana’s dependence on organic fertilisers may not help achieve food security – AGRA

... — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:45:10 +0000

Madam Asseta Diallo, Senior Programmes Officer at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Ghana says the country’s dependence on organic fertilisers for soil nutrients may not help achieve food security. She explained that Ghana had a poor fertility status where about 65 per cent of agricultural land was depleted or severely degraded […]

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Government urged to establish marine parks to check overexploitation of fish resources

... — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:20:14 +0000

Professor William Akpalu, Director of the Environment and Natural Resource Research Initiative (ENRRI-EfD Ghana), has advocated proactive measures to enhance the prospects of Ghana’s fishing industry. The outlook of the industry, he said, was not encouraging, saying an analysis of the catch per vessel over the years, that is, from the 1990s to 2018, indicated […]

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Just Tech Fellowship: Receive two-year awards of $100,000 annually

... — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 22:03:20 +0000

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The last day to submit Full Application Materials is January 30, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Apply HERE. The Social Science Research Council seeks applicants for the second cohort of its Just Tech Fellowship. The Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create […]

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US Ambassador urges stakeholders to build partnerships to tackle agribusiness challenges

GNA — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:37:51 +0000

Ambassador Virginia Evelyn Palmer, the United States Ambassador to Ghana, has called on stakeholders in the agribusiness sector to leverage partnerships to tackle challenges hindering the growth and development of the sector. She noted, particularly the difficulties in accessing agribusiness financing in the country and, therefore, said working together could possibly expand access to affordable and commercial […]

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Afri-Youth holds competition for SHS students on SDGs

... — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:18:36 +0000

Afri-Youth, a youth empowerment non-government organisation, has held a competition for Senior High School (SHS) students on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to enhance their participation in the attainment of the SDGs. The competition dubbed: “Afri-Youth Senior High Schools Community Impact Challenge,” was in partnership with the Northern Regional Secretariat of the National Youth Authority, […]

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Incidence of droughts to increase as a result of climate change

... — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:32:06 +0000

Asikasu Number 2 is a farming community in the New Juaben North District of the Eastern Region. It is partially surrounded by a green chain of ridges. Part of the community is shielded from the intense sunshine by escarpment. Over the last eight years, residents say they have observed that their only source of water, […]

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