Agricultural Issues
Municipal Members Unhappy over Tomato Factory Sale
Some members of the Techiman Municipal Assembly on Tuesday expressed unhappiness over the privatisation of the Techiman Tomato factory. They said what is disturbing is that the Assembly members were not consulted before the factory was privatised. [more]
Tamaligu Farmers Cultivating Butternut Squash for Export
Farmers in Tamaligu, a community in the Savelugu-Nanton District of the Northern Region have expressed joy over the introduction of butternut squash, an export commodity, to the village. Butternut squash, also known as butternut pumpkin, is a type of fruit or vegetable that has a yellowish skin and pulp with a sweet taste when it is well-ripen. [more]
Hyderabad’s Manasa Group Iinks Pact with SADA of Ghana
Hyderabad-based Manasa Group enters into an MoU with Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), a Government of Ghana’s agency here in city today for setting up of Integrated Agriculture Enterprises in Ghana. [more]
Food Crisis/Security
Technology and Innovation Aim at Greater Food Security
In the face of global climate change and currency devaluation, improved strategies are being used to combat high international poverty and malnutrition rates, and to increase global food security. [more]
Major Local Food Crops Face Extinction
The introduction of exotic breeds of food crops has put some major Ghanaian food crops on the verge of extinction, the Director of Biotechnology and Nuclear Agricultural Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Dr. Kenneth E. Danso, has said. [more]
Reports/Articles
Agricultural Development-led Industrialization Strategy in Ethiopia: An Overview
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations. Vol. 7(5), pp. 237-246, August 2013
This paper assesses the recent policy reforms. The result shows that there is no evidence that the poverty situation has improved. [more]
Rural Banks for Rural Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe in the 21st Century
Journal Agricultural Science, 4(1): 21-26 (2013)
The 2000 land reform programme in Zimbabwe availed large tracks of arable land to farmers. The first reaction to the land reform programme was a slump in food production in the country. Several factors have affected the sustainability of the land reform programme. The thesis of the current study is that the lack of finance contributed to the poor performance of the agricultural development in the country. [more]
Promoting Economic Diversification and Decent Rural Employment Towards Greater Resilience to Food Price Volatility
Food and Agriculture Organization Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome, Italy. Discussion Paper
Any strategy that aims to sustainably manage food price volatility should also seek to improve and stabilize real incomes over the short and long term. Decent employment creation, including as a result of economic diversification, is crucial in this sense. Both income diversification (e.g. any movement towards off-farm employment) and enterprise creation (e.g. engaging in farm-and off-farm business ventures) can help build resilience. However, to optimize their poverty and distributional impacts, policy reforms designed to diversify livelihoods and create more productive and decent employment opportunities for rural people, should also be complemented with adequate social protection interventions. [more]
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