At the back of the recent re-launch of the government’s flagship agricultural programme Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) Phase 2, Agrihouse Foundation – one of Ghana’s foremost agriculture growth facilitator, has let out a press release, re-emphasising the place of the private sector in leading a partnering drive...
To help address the challenge of difficult access to agribusiness financing, an intervention dubbed the ‘Affordable Agricultural Financing for Resilient Rural Development (AAFORD)’ project has been rolled out.
The US$69 million project’s primary objective is to improve agricultural productivity, incomes and resilience of smallholder farmers, vulnerable women and the youth.
This...
Agrihouse Foundation and GhaNeb LLC are offering a rare invitation for Ghanaian farmers, agribusiness entrepreneurs, government officials and private businesses to exploit business, trade and investment opportunities in the forthcoming Nebraska-Ghana Trade and Investment Programme, and to experience the highly-rated Husker Harvest Days.
The Nebraska-Ghana Trade and Investment programme is ...
A Policy Officer at AGRA, Dr. Dorothy Effa, has said that agricultural insurance could provide a solution to the challenges farmers encounter when applying for loans from banks.
According to a recent study by the Institute of Climate and Environmental Governance (ICEG), smallholder farmers in the northern regions primarily rely...
The Ghana Association of Savings and Loans Companies (GHASALC) has outlined its top regulatory priorities with the establishment of a common clearing house for Savings and Loans Companies (S&Ls) and Finance Houses at the top of the pile.
This, Executive Secretary of the association Tweneboah Kodua Boakye says, is a...
The Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) and the AFEX Commodities Exchange (AFEX) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) towards enhancing cross-border trade, promoting agricultural development, and strengthening economic ties between Ghana and Nigeria.
The MoU, signed on 25th August, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria marks a historic collaboration between two innovative...
Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and family and friends remain the dominant sources of credit for financing production activities of smallholder farmers in northern parts of the country, says a study.
This is despite several years of advocacy and calls for the banking sector to increase funding support for...
as input credit replaces input subsidy under PFJ1
Phase two of the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ2.0) will create 210,000 new farm-related jobs annually over the next four years, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said.
“This does not include other jobs along the agricultural value chains estimated at an...
As part of its efforts to help bring clarity on GM technology in Ghana and the status of work done on a GM product (PBR Cowpea) within CSIR Ghana and other challenges, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) held a workshop in Accra, Ghana, to which discussed Genetically...
As climate change effects reduce yields
The majority of farmers in Northern Ghana earned less than GH₵500 per crop season from their respective food crop cultivation, deepening poverty levels and widening inequality, a new research by the Institute of Climate and Environmental Governance (ICEG) has revealed.
The report, which...