Agribusiness in Africa
This is the 3rd episode of my WILOA series and today I am focussing on the NPP’s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs Agribusiness Masterstroke. Now anybody who has followed my journey in the academy knows that I have done far more work in the service-related research...
ECOM Ghana has received two awards at the maiden edition of the National Governance & Business Leadership Awards, as the firm and its Country Director, Muhammadu Muzzammil, were adjudged the Agribusiness Company of the Year and the Business Country Manager of the Year, respectively.
The National Governance and Business Leadership...
An initiative that will avail digital tools and training resources to small-scale farmers and agriculture-linked small businesses in Africa has been launched. The programme is a partnership between Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative and the IFC, and aims to support digital transformation in Africa’s agribusiness sector, modernise supply chains and boost...
It is estimated that Ghana loses between US$30 million to US$100 million every year in additional revenues due to not processing all the raw cashew nuts (RCN) produced in the country, an agro-processing expert, Shakti Pal, has disclosed.
He said despite the country’s competitive advantage of producing good quality RCN,...
New research into the living standards of cocoa farming families shows that on average, Fairtrade boosts farmers’ spending on household essentials beyond the need for food by 9%. For households living below the international poverty line of $3.20 a day, this figure jumps up to 14%, meaning more money...
The maiden edition of ‘Nyansapo’, a youth engagement forum which brings together young Ghanaians from diverse backgrounds on a common platform, to discuss and develop actionable solutions to the issues that confront them, has been held in Accra.
Nyansapo, an Akan phrase literally meaning “the wisdom knot” was conceived to...
The Oil Palm Development Association of Ghana (OPDAG) has locked horns with the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) over the 50 percent benchmark policy introduced by government to reduce duties on imported goods, saying, the latter is influencing government not to exempt vegetable oils from the policy.
According to...
Experts at the 9th Ghana Garden and Flower Show (GGFS) have enlightened youth and women on the business opportunities which exist in agriculture, and the need to seek opportunities that exist in the agribusiness space.
According to the team of agribusiness experts, agriculture outputs are essentials that individuals need -...
....“Lessons to be learned from "DeBeers Diamond Dilemma"
I am sure that most stakeholders in the Cocoa sector have heard about the “Lab-Grown Chocolate” project under trial in Switzerland.
This innovation which is been trialled as a possible solution to the “sustainability issues” raised in the cocoa sector has led to...
Endowed with almost 800 bird species, and huge potentials for birdwatching trade, Ghana is yet to boost that aspect of ecotourism and fully develop it for revenue generation purposes.
While there are at least, a birdwatching spot in every region in Ghana, the Keta Lagoon Ramsar Site, Ankasa Resource Reserve,...