Agricultural Issues
Ghana gets US$145m Commercial Agriculture Grant
Ghana’s Minister of Food and Agriculture, Clement Humado, said on Friday that the country had secured a 145 million-dollar grant for the development of commercial agriculture. [more]
Ghana Meets Global Anti-Hunger Targets Ahead of 2015 Deadline – FAO
Ghana has met internationally-established targets in the fight against hunger, the UN food agency confirmed June 12, 2013. Ghana was among 38 countries worldwide to have met the targets ahead of the 2015 deadline. [more]
Ghana Said to Have Huge Potential for Sesame Crop
There is a huge potential in Ghana for the sesame industry due to the vast availability of land, climate, soil sustainability and market, Mr. Issahaku Zakaria, Project Manager of the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) has said. [more]
Big Rush for Shea Nut Seedlings
A Tamale based plantation, Savanna Plantations, is set to nurse two million shear seedlings for distribution to farmers in the three northern regions. The purpose of this is to meet the growing demand for shear seedlings after scientists from Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) successfully conducted researches that helped in reducing the gestation period of the shea tree from twenty years to six or less years.
Daily Graphic, Thursday, June 13, 2013. No. 19175, page 13.
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Reports
Evaluation of Agricultural Technology Adoption Using the Double Difference Evaluation Method: The Case of the Kenya Agricultural Productivity Project (KAPP)
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
Impact evaluation is undertaken to determine whether a program achieved desired effects on individuals, households, and institutions and whether those effects are attributable to the program intervention. [more]
Benchmarking Regional Economic Communities (RECs) Processes to Articulate Advancement of Conservation Agriculture
World Agroforestry Centre: Transforming Lives and Landscapes
Seventy per cent more food must be provided in the next 40 years when the current 7 billion world population is projected to hit an all-time high of 9 billion. This highly drastic population explosion will be taking place, but more so in the developing world. Even more impact of this will be felt in Africa where life is mostly rural and agricultural production is by the majority of smallholder farmers (67 per cent), operating in vulnerable semi-arid lands. This study reports on the policy and institutional factors promoting or hindering large scale adoption of conservation agriculture identified, quantified and documented and (iii) A regional facilitation mechanism for scaling up agroforestry based conservation agriculture identified. [more]
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