It explored digital responses that can be quickly deployed to address the disruptions to food systems, caused by COVID-19
Africa must seize the opportunity of the COVID-19 pandemic to deepen the digitalization of agricultural value chains and transform the sector, speakers at a webinar jointly hosted by the FAO Investment...
Physical interactions are less desired as cases of the COVID-19 pandemic surge in many countries. This has the potential to limit farmers' access to inputs and extension support services, which play a major role in enhancing farm-level productivity and improve farmers’ incomes and livelihoods. Under the Next Generation Cocoa...
As part of strategies to hasten revival of the economy following negative impacts from the coronavirus pandemic, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has rolled out a programme that supports young entrepreneurs in the agriculture sector to tap into the international market.
The Youth in Export Programme, which is in...
Success is for the daring. It is only those who are ready to press on in life that can succeed in any endeavour. That is what has accounted for the success of a young poultry farmer in Tamale, capital of the Northern Region in Ghana. He started life as...
The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) have handed over Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other essential health supplies to Mim Cashew and Agricultural Products Ltd., at Mim in the Asunafo North Municipality of Ahafo Region.
The supply of PPE and other sanitary...
Players in the oil palm industry have expressed fears that the Ghana Revenue Authority’s decision to maintain and continue implementing the 50 percent benchmark value on palm oil imports is severely hampering the development of local content - collapsing businesses and leading to job losses.
President of the Oil Palm...
Government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), in partnership with Knights A.S, a technology transfer company, has introduced subsidized agriculture engineering technology to aid small and medium scale farmers in production.
The initiative which falls under the mechanization module of government’ flagship programme, ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’,...
Lab Innova for Africa, a technical-managerial training project set up by the Italian Trade Agency, has launched a virtual training programme with support from the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) for Ghanaian Agro-based businesses.
The training programme is aimed at increasing the technical and managerial skills of local agri-food companies...
Ivory Coast farmers say leaving crop to rot
Cashew prices at unprofitable lows, some farmers say
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Buying picks up in Ghana, output on track to reach target
Olivier Gore-Bi took out loans to ready his 12-acre cashew farm in...
Fourteen farmers within the host communities of AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine have benefitted from the Teberebie Vegetable Cooperative Project at Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality in the Western Region.
The Teberebie Vegetable Cooperative Project is part of the many other initiatives under implementation by Iduapriem Mine in response to the increasing unemployment situation...