At a time when donors and governments are increasing efforts to mainstream gender in agriculture, it is critical to revisit long-standing wisdom about gender inequalities in agriculture to be able to more efficiently design and evaluate policy interventions. Many stylized facts about women in agriculture have been repeated for decades. Did nothing really change? Is […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – August 22, 2016
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Media Reports Ghana to Host World Groundnut Researchers in Tamale The annual meeting for the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, which is made up of scientists and student researchers working through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Feed the Future program to improve food […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – June 13, 2016
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Media Reports Time for Agric Insurance - Minister The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Dr Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan has admitted that an institutionalised insurance agriculture scheme will go a long way to improve the agric sector and make it attractive to investors. Dr. Alhassan said it was […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – February 1, 2016
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Agric Ministry Launches New Strategy to Ensure Growth, Gender Parity A revised national gender and agriculture development strategy to address the current agricultural challenges and ensure gender equity in the sector has been launched in Accra. Dubbed the “Gender and Agriculture Development Strategy II”, […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – September 14, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Distribution of Cocoa Inputs is Intact and Transparent - COCOBOD The free supply of inputs to cocoa farmers by Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is intact and transparent, an intelligent operative of the Board has declared. The operative who spoke on behalf of Dr. Stephen […]