Below are some current developments on Agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Genetically Modified Foods Pose No Risk Dr. Margaret Ottah Atikpo, Deputy Director of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSRI) - Food Research Institute (FRI) on Friday reiterated that Genetically Modified (GM) foods posed no risk to lives. She stated GM foods were not […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – March 24, 2014.
Below are some current developments on Agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues FAO Launches New Satellite-based Data on Forest Resources The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in a new data released on the state of the world forest said global forest areas continue to decline, with the biggest losses of tropical forests occurring in South America […]
Irrigation Development in Ghana: Past Experiences, Emerging Opportunities, and Future Directions
The Ghana Strategy Support Program has released a new working paper that discusses irrigation development in Ghana and identifies ways to strengthen the country's irrigated agricultural sector. Agriculture has a central socioeconomic position in Ghana. This sector accounts for about 65 percent of the work force, about 40 percent of the gross domestic product, and […]