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Fertile Ground
Scaling agroecology from the ground up
There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overcome the interlinking challenges...
Brazil - Burkina Faso - Ecuador - Ghana - Haiti - Honduras - Mali - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - United States of America
2023 - Groundswell International
Article
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis
The fertiliser value chain in Ghana faces many challenges that limit its potential contribution to food production and food security in the country. This has necessitated discussions on the need to establish a multi-stakeholder platform to address existing value chain challenges. In preparation for this platform, this study conducted 31...
Ghana
2023
Étude de cas
Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana : une filière cacao plus juste et durable avec le DRD ?
Ces dernières années, l’accès à un revenu décent pour les producteurs est devenu une priorité de la filière cacao, notamment en Côte d’Ivoire et au Ghana, les deux premiers exportateurs mondiaux. Les gouvernements de ces pays en ont pris conscience en adoptant, en octobre 2020, le Différentiel de revenu décent...
Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana
2023 - Fondation pour l'Agriculture et la Ruralité dans le Monde (FARM)
Rapport
Digitalization and child labour in agriculture
Exploring blockchain and Geographic Information Systems to monitor and prevent child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector. Design paper
This paper is the product of a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) to explore the potential application of innovative technologies to improve data collection and risk estimation of child labour in the cocoa sector. In particular, it...
Ghana
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Étude de cas
Advancing agrobiodiversity through agroecology, seed management and enterprise development in Ghana
This agrobiodiversity case study (No.2) from Ghana is the second of six case studies prepared by forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) for the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).
It describes the actions of the Abrono Organic Farmers Association (ABOFA) – formerly the Abrono Organic Farming Project – based in Forikrom...
Ghana
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Article de revue spécialisée
Doing it right to alleviate poverty: application of the sustainable food value chain development framework to Ghana’s poultry sector
Some international organizations and civil society activists are blaming exporting countries of frozen chicken products for the underdevelopment of the domestic poultry sectors in developing nations. However, concrete evidence that supports or rejects these criticisms is missing. Against this background, this study was conducted to examine the performance of Ghana’s...
Ghana
2023 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Article de blog
Closed Season: The woes of women and children in fishing communities
The din of brisk fishing activity greets anyone who ventures onto the landing beach at Jamestown the Greater Accra Region and in coastal regions all over Ghana.
The fishermen haul nets with fish from the boats, while the women take up the sale of fish from January to December.
But not so...
Ghana
2023
Rapport
Ghana: Beyond Knee-jerk Reactions
Ghana’s efforts at providing social development, employment and decent work in its fisheries sector must focus on improving education, health and social protection in fishing communities
Ghana has about 550 km of coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, along the Gulf of Guinea. Within the coastal space, more than two million people are directly and indirectly engaged in fisheries. The country’s engagement with the sea results in about 300,000 tonnes of fish every year, apart from nearly...
Ghana
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Rapport
Ghana: A Good Year
Interview with Jojo Solomon, president, Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC) on how artisanal fishers should fish responsibly
Most countries look up to Ghana when it comes to responsible fisheries and management. Fortunately for us, this time around, we have a minister who has at least demonstrated a political will to do that which is right politically. Ghana is moving forward with a lot of reforms.
Ghana
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Ouvrage
Social Development and Sustainable Fisheries: Ghana
Ghana’s existing policies for social development cover fishing communities and yet, fail to address them specifically. The needs of rural and geographically isolated fishing communities are ignored. Urban fishers tend to benefit more from social development interventions and have a better quality of life compared to their rural counterparts. Despite...
Ghana
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Note/document d'orientation
Agrobiodiversity — the way to save earth’s skin
Humans depend on a thin planetary ‘skin’ made up of life in all its diversity: biodiversity. Agriculture now covers the largest portion (46%) of the global land surface area; its ecological health and resilience in the face of changing climate is therefore critical to human survival. The biodiversity found within...
Ecuador - Ghana - Madagascar - Nepal - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Rapport
Evaluation of FAO’s country programme in Ghana 2018–2022
In 2022, the FAO Office of Evaluation conducted its first country programme evaluation in Ghana covering the period between 2018 and 2022. The purpose of the evaluation is to provide strategic recommendations on how the FAO programme can be better oriented in Ghana that could feed into the formulation of...
Ghana
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Document de travail
The unsung giants of climate and nature investment: Insights from an international survey of local climate and nature action by smallholder forest and farm producers
In this working paper, we present the findings of a survey of more than 1,800 farmers across 13 different countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The survey suggests that smallholder forest and farm producers (those who manage 10 hectares or less of land) are investing on average 20-40% of...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - China - Ecuador - Ghana - Kenya - Liberia - Madagascar - Mexico - Nepal - Togo - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam - Zambia
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Rapport
National Land Policy Study Report on Ghana
AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA’s Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries.
These reports aim to:
Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies and governance structures, focusing on how these policies affect peasants’ rights,...
Ghana
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Rapport
Stories of change: connecting traditional knowledge and innovations for fair and sustainable food systems
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform in collaboration with the Barefoot Guide Connection organized a series of “writeshops”, writing classes to support practitioners to write their own experience, generating knowledge which highlight the practices, changes, innovations and impacts of what they do in support of family farming.
These writeshops represented an opportunity...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Egypt - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Poland - Timor-Leste - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
Ghana - Malawi - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana : une filière cacao plus juste et durable avec le DRD ?
Ces dernières années, l’accès à un revenu décent pour les producteurs est devenu une priorité de la filière cacao, notamment en Côte d’Ivoire et au Ghana, les deux premiers exportateurs mondiaux. Les gouvernements de ces pays en ont pris conscience en adoptant, en octobre 2020, le Différentiel de revenu décent...
Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana
2023 - Fondation pour l'Agriculture et la Ruralité dans le Monde (FARM)
Partie de rapport
Learning to respect local knowledge, the hard way!
It was a sunny Saturday morning, full of life and energy as we arrived in one of the beautiful and serene farming communities in the hinterlands. Whilst one could easily be put off by the roughness of the roads to the community, the freshness of the air in such forest...
Ghana
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Rapport
Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems
Consolidated baseline report: Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
Ghana - Malawi - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Rapport
Monitoring the challenges of marine and inland small-scale fisherfolks in Ghana
The study provides a description of Ghana's marine and inland Small-Scale Fisheries Organizations (SSFOs), detailing their characteristics, challenges, and awareness of the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication. The report outlines the survey methodology, and covers organization profiles, members' livelihoods, and...
Ghana
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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