Central African countries have been once again admonished to increase their efforts at achieving the kind of regional integration that will foster sustainable growth in all the economies of the sub-region, especially in terms of monitoring the benchmarks of macroeconomic convergence they have set for themselves.
Category: Agriculture
Africa Accounts For Just 4.9% Of Global Fish Trade
A new pan-African project has been launched to strengthen the continent’s great potential for increased trade in fish.
‘Security Forces Biggest Threat To Freedom Of Expression’
State security forces—mainly police, military and security intelligence officers—are the leading violators of the right to freedom of expression in West Africa, according to the latest monitoring report by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
Pres: 50 Million Improved Cocoa Seedling For Farmers
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is distributing a total of fifty million improved cocoa seedlings free of charge to farmers in cocoa growing areas of the country this year.
Louis Berger Helps MCC Complete Anti-poverty Program
Louis Berger, acting as the procurement agent for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), recently marked the completion of the agency’s $480 million poverty reduction program in Burkina Faso.
Smallholder Farmers To Benefit From $50M MasterCard Fund
The MasterCard Foundation, a Canada based independent global organisation has announced a $50 million challenge fund to help improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Ghana and other African countries by enabling businesses to expand financial services in rural areas of Ghana and across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ghana ‘Wee’ Enters Export Market
The Kasoa District Police have intercepted a large consignment of substances suspected to be Indian Hemp (wee) at Papaase, a small community situated along the Kasoa-Bawjiase road in the Central Region of Ghana.
Engineers Pledge Support For SADA
The Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) and the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) today launched a ground-breaking event which seeks to bring together Ghana’s engineering fraternity and a wide range of local and international stakeholders interested in and committed to the development of Northern Savannah Ecological Zone (NSEZ) of Ghana.
SEND Ghana: GHȻ411M Agric Budget Not Enough
SEND Ghana criticised government’s GHȻ 411 million planned spending on the agricultural sector next year, describing it as “inadequate” to guarantee food security in the country.
Bridging The Microfinance Gap For Smallholder Farmers
Microfinance is widely known for the incredible speed with which it has scaled to reach hundreds of millions of people, and the positive effect it has had in reducing poverty.