AG Week

Transforming Ghana's agriculture is focus of project

FARGO, N.D. -- If America's great ability can meet Ghana's great need for agricultural development, that will be good thing for humanity -- and maybe for business, too. "We want you to invest in Ghana ...
Ghana News Agency (GNA) on MSN

Ghana, partners commit to sustainable agribusiness growth

The seventh edition of the Agrofood and Plastprintpack Ghana exhibition and conference has ended in Accra with renewed ...
The Conversation

Farming with a mixture of crops, animals and trees is better for the environment and for people – evidence from Ghana and Malawi

Laura Vang Rasmussen receives funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement 853222 FORESTDIET). Ingo Grass ...
MyJoyOnline

Climate Crisis in Ghana: How rising temperatures are driving migration and environmental degradation

Ghana is on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Across the northern regions, rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and erratic rainfall are forcing farmers to abandon their lands in search of ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

In coastal Ghana, female oyster farmers try to save an old practice threatened by climate change

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition ...
Business Insider

Green Gold Farms raises $1.6 million to tackle Ghana's food import problem and poverty in the North

TEMA, Ghana, July 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Gold Farms, a leading Ghana-based, African-led agribusiness start-up has completed raising US$1.6 million from Absa Bank Ghana, Diaspora Capital, ...
Ghana News Agency on MSN

Alliance of Bioversity International, CIAT enhance climate-resilient farming in Gushegu

Farmers in the Gushegu Municipality of the Northern Region have commended the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT for introducing climate-resilient farming technologies that are transforming ...

Child labour rising in West Africa cocoa farms despite efforts - report

The use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast over the past decade despite industry promises to ...
Medicine Buffalo

Secure and efficient irrigation in rural northern Ghana

Almost half of Ghana’s labor force are farmers. The crops they grow – cocoa, cassava, yams, bananas, and corn – are largely dependent on rain-fed water sources. With a dry season that typically lasts ...
The Conversation

Ghana’s rice farmers need finance for new technologies, but banks don’t trust them

Philip Tetteh Quarshie receives funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, and the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is also ...
Washington Times

Urban farm is experimental site for sister garden in Ghana

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina summers are notoriously hot. Luckily for Carmen Ketron, the Palmetto State’s hot summer climate means she can grow peppers, yams, beans, tomatoes and other ...