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Ghana Tourism Authority, COCOBOD, launches 2025 National Chocolate Week

... — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:19:59 +0000

The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), in collaboration with Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has launched the 2025 National Chocolate Week Celebrations with the call on hospitality facilities across Ghana to incorporate chocolates and cocoa based products as part of their menu. Mr Ekow Sampson, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the GTA in Charge of Operations, encouraged […]

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FAO and SEED launch SDG Agrifood Accelerator Programme for innovators

... — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:38:35 +0000

A selection of enterprises that are helping transform agrifood systems are to receive tailor-made help The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the SEED partnership today officially launched the SDG Agrifood Accelerator Programme, an instrument designed to help agrifood system start-ups develop their businesses while contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Alternative approaches […]

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Government urged to use traditional conservative practices to Fight Climate Change

... — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:35:26 +0000

Forest fringe communities in the Afadzato South District of the Volta Region have called on the Government to consider traditional conservative practices in its policies towards the fight against climate change. They said taboos, beliefs and cultural practices being observed by the local people to protect water bodies, forests and sacred groves have, to a […]

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A call for urgent action to address global food security crisis

... — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:21:10 +0000

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Director General QU Dongyu, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Group (WBG) President David Malpass, World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley and World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala issued the following second joint statement calling for urgent action […]

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Farmer, 57, remanded into police custody for allegedly murdering wife

... — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:49:23 +0000

Gideon Tetteh, 57, a farmer, has been remanded into police custody for two weeks by the Ofaakor District Court over alleged murder of his wife, Sabina Bonney, 45. The Magistrate, Mr Eric Oheneba Antwi Boasiako, adjourned the case to Thursday, September 01, 2022, whilst awaiting legal advice from the Attorney Generals (AG) Office. The prosecutor, […]

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African governments charged to institutionalise Agricultural risk management systems

... — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:09:33 +0000

The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) has called on African governments to institutionalise Agricultural Risk Management (ARM) system by integrating strategies and investments into national agricultural policies. That, PARM noted, would stimulate productive and sustainable investment across the food and agricultural value chain to ensure food and nutrition security, and help reduce hunger and poverty. […]

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Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa to benefit from digital soil nutrient mapping

... — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:19:08 +0000

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will fast track an impact-oriented project in Central America and in sub-Saharan Africa for digital soil nutrient mapping thanks to a $20 million contribution from the Government of the United States of America. This type of soil mapping can improve the efficiency in the use […]

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Rural women farmers in Gambia supported with solar-powered water systems

... — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:16:16 +0000

Across many parts of rural Gambia, women farmers often start their days before dawn to ensure that they have enough water to irrigate their gardens and to cook, clean and bathe at home. “Some of us would wake up as early as 3.00 a.m. to 4.00 a.m. just to get water. Hyenas attacked us on […]

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Food security in non-negotiable – Prince Mba

... — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:36:52 +0000

Mr Prince Bagnaba Mba, President of Forum for Equity, a human rights organisation has called for unity among Ghanaians to solve national challenges, especially food management. “There comes a time that we must all come together to find realistic solutions to national crisis and stop the blame game. Self-sufficiency in food protection and food security […]

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Using living organisms to suppress pest populations in Burundi

... — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:33:22 +0000

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Office for Eastern Africa and the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock have successfully released biological control agents of the Mango Mealybug in Burundi. The biological control agent release was done in two provinces of Burundi, in the months of April and May […]

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Eco-Bishops targets to plant over one million trees

... — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:39:46 +0000

The Anglican Ecosystem-Bishops (Eco-Bishops) of the West African Province, a movement of the Anglican Communion, has targeted to plant over one million trees to support government’s Green Ghana project. Right Reverend Dennis Debukari Tong, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Tamale, said the initiative was in line with the Anglican Communion’s project, where Bishops were […]

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Minister cautions citizenry against indiscriminate tree cutting

... — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:30:58 +0000

Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Friday, cautioned the public against indiscriminate cutting of trees. She said such actions retarded the collective action towards the restoration of degraded lands across the country. To that end, Ms Ayorkor Botchway called for the inculcation of the value of planting and nurturing […]

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