Agricultural Issues
Ghana School Feeding Program to Buy Produce from Wa Farmers
Twenty five farmer based groups in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region have agreed to sell their farm produce to caterers who operate under the Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP). [more]
Boss of HFC Bank Kicks Against Proposal to Finance Agriculture
HFC Bank boss Asare Akuffo says banks cannot be forced to “throw money” at agriculture when the problems with financing the sector have not been addressed. [more]
Chinese Team Tells Ghana to Consider Technology Transfer to Boost Agric Output
A delegation from China has called on Mr. Clement Kofi Humado, Minister of Food and Agriculture to consider technological transfer to Ghana to boost agricultural development to make the country self-sufficient in food production. [more]
Reports
Agricultural Development in the Northern Savannah of Ghana
Doctoral Documents from Doctor of Planet Health Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The goal of this document is to identify why smallholders in the north continue to get lower than expected yields even when good agronomic practices (GAPs) are being implemented. [more]
Urban Agriculture, Price Volatility, Drought, and Food Security in Developing Countries
University of Rome "Tor Vergata". MPRA Paper No. 46544, posted 27. April 2013 10:29 UTCUrban agriculture may have an important role to play in addressing food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly vital with the secular trends towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing countries. The paper analyzes the importance of urban agriculture for the urban poor and food insecure. [more]
The Factors Affecting Poverty Alleviation Projects in Developing Economies
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Thesis
The primary aim of this thesis is to analyze the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the present situation of poverty alleviation projects in developing countries, by taking into account the various activities of the Social investment fund during the implementation of the urban poverty reduction project in Ghana. [more]
Thank you
The articles included in this news digest have been generated from online news sources and the daily graphic newspaper published within last week. For more information on any of these articles, please contact Adwoa Kwarteng at A.Kwarteng@cgiar.org
If you would like us to add your colleagues to our mailing list, please send their names and emails to us at IFPRI-Ghana@cgiar.org and we will be happy to do so. If you wish to no longer receive these updates, please reply to this email with “unsubscribe” in the subject line, and we will remove you from the mailing list.