A new study by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) indicated that Ghana could raise the standard of living of rural farmers, meet the nation’s food needs, and transform the economy if new approaches to farming, processing, and marketing cassava, cocoa, poultry, and rice are applied.
The number of hungry people in the world has dropped to 795 million — 216 million fewer than in 1990-92 — or around one person out of every nine, according to the latest edition of the annual UN hunger report (The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 – SOFI).
Favourable policies and investments in agricultural infrastructure have emerged as the major drivers of food-security improvements in Sub-Saharan Africa.
International prices for agricultural commodities continued to decline in April and abundant inventories are poised to offset any pressure from the slight reduction in global harvests expected this year, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
Eight months after governments and civil society united to catalyse global climate action at the Climate Summit 2014 in New York, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced the regional launch of the Global District Energy in Cities Initiative to a positive reception by local and national governments, and the private sector.
It is something extraordinary when a disease is eradicated from the face of the earth, as great a human accomplishment as inventing the internet or putting a man on the moon.
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.
A new pan-African project has been launched to strengthen the continent’s great potential for increased trade in fish.
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).
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.
