By Achim Steiner and Shenggen Fan Rural areas are in crisis. Rural residents make up 45 percent of the world’s population but bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, malnutrition, and poor quality of life. The global rural poverty rate is 17 percent (compared to 7 percent in urban areas). Rural people comprise 70 percent of […]
Crop diversity and household diets in Ghana
by Maxwell Young Ghana’s steady economic growth since the 1980s has helped reduce poverty and improve food security and is considered one of the development success stories of Africa south of the Sahara. Ghana’s agricultural transformation—improvements in farming technology, value chains, crop diversity, and other changes—has been key to that growth. Less clear, however, is […]
Does Warehouse Receipt Financing Benefit Ghanaian Smallholders?
Proponents of warehouse receipt systems argue that they benefit smallholder farmers by allowing them to store surplus grains in a secure facility to sell later in the season when prices tend to be higher. In the interim, receipt holders can use the stored commodity as collateral to secure loans to finance household consumption and investment […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – July 13, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Tiger-nuts: Untapped Non-traditional Export Crop Ghana’s trade imbalance continues to widen up with massive imports as against limited export trade. The situation is a pivotal contributory factor to the craze for major international trading currencies, translating into the perennially depreciating cedi. Export earnings in […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – December 15, 2014
Below are some current developments on Agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Symposium for GMOs Adoption in Accra A policy symposium on the need to collate views to push forward the adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) by Ghana was held in Accra on Wednesday. The symposium was on the theme; “Accepting or Not Accepting GMOs; […]
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