Agricultural Issues
Ghana: New Initiative to Improve Agric Policies Out
AllAfrica.com
A new initiative aimed at developing a strong policy support system in Ghana to drive the country towards the attainment of a green revolution has commenced.
The initiative, known as Ghana Policy Nodes and Country Hub Programme, is being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, in collaboration with the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to increase the productivity, profitability and sustainability of smallholder farmers, by driving comprehensive change across the agricultural value chain.
It also targets addressing the major obstacles faced by the country's smallholder farmers through improving farmers' access to good seed, fertilizer and sustainable farming practices such as easy access to credit, crop storage and to build strong farmer-based organizations in the country.
Food Crisis/Security
Poverty and Food Insecurity Work Hand In Hand
Modern Ghana
The lack of enough food in the world today can be attributed to the level of poverty.
Food scarcity is indeed the trademark of poverty, as most people in the world today fall extremely below the minimum wage of their various countries. According to research, many people in the developing and under developed countries live below one dollar a day. Considering the rate at which prices of goods and services increase by the day, and the drifting away of people from blue collar jobs like agriculture to white collar jobs, the heat of the economy, in terms of food satisfaction, has never been friendly to people living in poverty, especially, those in extreme poverty.
Gender Issues
Ghana-Training: 20 Women Trained On Improved Rice Post-Harvest Technologies
Afrique en Ligue
Training-Ghana - Twenty women rice processors, mainly drawn from the Bolgatanga Municipality and Kassena-Nankana East District of the Upper East Region, have attended a three-day training workshop to broaden their knowledge on improved rice post-harvest technologies. The training, which took place in Bolgatanga, afforded the women, who were representatives of five groups of rice processors, the opportunity to learn from their experienced colleagues in rice processing, so as to improve upon their processing skills, and the quality of the par-boiled rice they process. In an interview with the Upper East File, a resource person, Mr. Joseph Gayin of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), organisers of the programme, observed that the quality of rice processed in the region was very good, as compared to some other areas.