Below are some current developments on Agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Non-traditional Exports: Ghana Faces EU Ban The European Union (EU) has threatened to ban a number of non-traditional exports (NTEs) from Ghana because they contain poisonous chemicals, including aflatoxins. The EU issued a number of food safety alerts (threats to ban) to the Ministry […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – February 3, 2014.
Below are the current developments on Agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Parliament Reconvened Yesterday with the First Agendum of GMO Parliament reconvened yesterday with the first agendum of considering the Plant Breeders Bill (2013), which the House failed to pass in 2013. The consideration of the bill was further torpedoed by numerous petitions which the […]
Sustaining the Cocoa Sector in Ghana: What Next?
Ghana cocoa is one of the few commodity sectors in Africa that has not been fully liberalized. Some competition was introduced in the local marketing of cocoa that allows licensed buyers to purchase cocoa from producers at an announced price. Both the minimum producer price and the margin are determined by an industry representative body. […]
IFPRI-ODI Cocoa Workshop Proceedings
The proceedings of the IFPRI-ODI Workshop "Production, Markets and the Future of Smallholders: the Role of Cocoa in Ghana" are now available. (Note: the proceedings document contains links to the other workshop files. All of the files should be downloaded to the same folder for the links to work properly.) Proceedings Agenda Participants Presentations: The […]
Production, Markets and the Future of Smallholders: the Role of Cocoa in Ghana
When: 19 November 2007 from 14:30-17:30 Where: Conference Center, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Airport Residential Area, Accra, Ghana GSSP and the Rural Policy and Governance Group of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) are co-organizing a one-day workshop intended to strengthen links between research and policy for more effective management of the cocoa sector. […]
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