As part of efforts to help increase farm profitability and ensure that the root cause of poverty is addressed for cocoa farmers in Africa, the National Fair Trade Platforms of Ghana, Fair Trade Ghana Network (FTGN) comprising the Ivorian Fair ...
GB Foods, the company behind the popular Gino brand, has announced plans to invest US$ 70 million into tomato production and processing in a major boost for tomato production in the country. The project involves establishing two industrial farms, each ...
Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) Anti-smuggling Task Force in collaboration with the security agencies, has within two weeks, retrieved over 1,500 bags of cocoa, en route to being smuggled to neighbouring countries. According to the Director of Special Services at COCOBOD, ...
Agro-processing is essential for sustained and accelerated economic growth, food security, job creation, and poverty reduction. In February 2020, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced that Ghana will no longer export raw cocoa beans and instead intends to process more and more of ...
Under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, Africa’s need to import so much will be reduced, and domestic processing capacity boosted massively. Agriculture accounts for roughly one-third of the African continent’s GDP provides a livelihood for 50% of ...
The Development Bank Ghana (DBG), has as part of its strategies to improve foοd security in the country, engaged stakeholders in the poultry value chain to ascertain challenges and provide financing support. The Bank believes that addressing market failures in ...
Consider sowing drought-tolerant seed varieties that can withstand drought and other climatic and environmental hazards to ensure food security. That is Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) advise farmers, especially those in the food basket regions. This is because those varieties of ...
Officials from the Australian High Commission in Accra have paid a visit to beneficiary women-owned shea processing groups in the Northern Region to ascertain how the support they have received is impacting their operations. Through the Australian High Commission’s Direct ...
The lemon market in Europe is currently experiencing stable demand, with some variation in prices. According to a Dutch importer, the market is seeing good demand for lemons, with prices for extra class I lemons reaching up to 16-17 euros. ...
A new book, Convening Black Intimacy, explores the history of Christianity, gender and precolonial marriage and sex traditions in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. To conduct her study, historian Natasha Erlank drew on court records of cases ...
The latest research on honey bees by a researcher from Monash University provides the answer to whether the honey bee’s iconic waggle dance is learned or innate. As we progress through life, we learn many essential behaviours from more experienced ...
Bees for Development Ghana (BfDG) has introduced a new project to address gender disparity in relation to beekeeping development (and training). Research findings point to the fact that only about 13% of Agricultural Extension Agents are women. This is most likely ...