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Gov’t targets mariculture to close Ghana’s fish supply deficit

... — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:13:49 +0000

Ghana is considering marine culture and community-based commercial fish farming to boost local fish production, improve food security and create jobs for the youth. The initiative forms part of broader measures to address declining fish stocks and reduce the country’s dependence on fish imports. Madam Emelia Arthur, Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, disclosed this in […]

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TCDA signs MoUs to boost beekeeping, rubber production and land restoration

... — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:42:04 +0000

The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) has signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) to advance sustainable practices in Ghana’s tree crops sector. The agreements aim to integrate beekeeping, restore degraded lands, and develop rubber plantations to enhance production, environmental sustainability, and farmer livelihoods. A statement issued by TCDA and shared with the Ghana News Agency […]

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Gender gaps persist in Feed Ghana Programme – Study Finds

... — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:05:15 +0000

Ms Eugenia Ayishetu Ayagiba, Women’s Rights and Advocacy Manager at ActionAid Ghana has raised concerns over gender gaps and issues of inclusivity in the government’s Feed Ghana Programme. She underscored need for reforms to make it more inclusive and responsive to the needs of smallholder women farmers. She said, “We are looking at how the […]

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Cashew Watch Ghana engages TCDA to strengthen cashew sector collaboration

... — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:08:28 +0000

The leadership of the Cashew Watch Ghana (CWG) has paid courtesy to Dr Andy Osei Okrah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA) in Accra. The CWG is a civil society organisation promoting the growth and development of the nation’s cashew sector through policy advocacy. A statement issued and signed by […]

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Ghana Calls for Climate Debt Forgiveness to Protect Vulnerable Nations

... — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:03:09 +0000

Mr. Seidu Issifu, Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability, has called for the urgent establishment of a climate debt forgiveness mechanism to support countries disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change. He said developing nations, especially in Africa, were being forced into deeper debt traps as they tried to cope with the increasingly severe impacts of climate-related […]

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Ghana to receive €36.8m EU funding for Northern Region Development Projects

... — Tue, 20 May 2025 22:50:51 +0000

Ghana is set to benefit from two European Union (EU) development projects worth €36.8 million, aimed at communities in the northern regions. The projects include the €19.5 million Better Farming project and the €17.3 million Green, Digital, and Inclusive Private Sector Development Project, announced at the Ghana-EU Business Forum on Tuesday. Madam Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister […]

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Widnaba farmers and Fulbe herders embrace peace through cultural integration

... — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:43:30 +0000

A project, aimed to foster social cohesion through cross-cultural integration, has inured farmers in Widnaba and Fulbe herders embracing peaceful coexistence in the Upper East Region. The change is attributed to an intervention dubbed: “Support Project for the Strengthening of Social Cohesion at the Level of Strategic Cross-Border Territories (PARCS Project),” implemented by Changing Lives […]

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The Green Finance Facilitator (GFF) for Ghanaian Businesses

... — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:28:05 +0000

Deadline: 31st December 2024 [23:59 GMT] The Green Finance Facilitator (GFF) is a program that provides advisory services to green businesses in Ghana to enable them to become investment ready and access green financing. The Green Finance Facilitator (GFF) is a technical assistance program that provides advisory services to green businesses to enable them to […]

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UNICEF’s Venture Fund Gender- Responsive Innovation Challenge

... — Thu, 09 May 2024 08:53:45 +0000

Deadline:24th May, 2024 The UNICEF Venture Fund is committed to diversity and inclusion in its approach to early-stage investing and catalyzing novel innovations developed by startups leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data science (DS), drones, blockchain, or extended reality (XR). These innovations aim to address the unmet needs of marginalized […]

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Agriculture Market Linkages Fair brings actors in value chain together

... — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 20:08:58 +0000

An agriculture Market Linkages Fair has been held to bring actors in the agricultural value chain in the Savannah Region to a common platform to network, identify potential buyers, input dealers and other service providers to help improve their businesses. Various agricultural value chain actors, including farmers, input dealers, aggregators, processors, tractor service providers and […]

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Ghana develops food-based dietary guidelines

... — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:02:10 +0000

Ghana has become the eighth country in Africa and fourth in West Africa to launch food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG). The guidelines will serve as a tool to promote healthy eating through increased access to evidence-informed nutrition and health information among the public, especially children above five years. The 45-pager booklet recommends the daily consumption of […]

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We cannot let rising hunger in Africa be our legacy

... — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:48:50 +0000

World Food Day puts a spotlight on Africa’s hunger crisis Opinion piece by Abebe Haile-Gabriel, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa As we mark World Food Day on 16 October, one in five people in Africa is going hungry. More than a billion Africans cannot afford […]

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