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Towards strengthened collaboration and support to agricultural and rural development in new shared Offices allocated by the Government Accra- The Government of Ghana today made a multi-purpose office complex in Accra available to two United Nations Agencies - the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural...

Building sustainable soil management capacity as International Year of Soils rolls out  16 March 2015, Dodowa, Ghana- Experts from 21 countries from Central and West Africa will be trained in Dodowa, Ghana, in a 12-day Training workshop on Digital Soil Mapping for Western and Central African countries. The workshop, organized by FAO...

Crop   experts from seven countries exchange and learn new crop systems  13   March 2015, Dodowa, Ghana - About 14 research and   extension workers from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Togo and   Ghana attended a 4-day workshop at Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region   (Ghana), from...

A renewed alliance towards empowering  men, women and youth to increase income and improve livelihoods   9 March 2015, Tamale, Ghana -- In view of implementing sustainable activities to the benefit of farmers and in the fight against poverty and food insecurity by promoting entrepreneurial and capacity building activities, FAO and the...

Addis Ababa - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today attended an African Union (AU) summit which is set to focus on a continent-wide commitment by governments to end hunger by 2025, and also on efforts to boost the role of women in achieving prosperity in Africa.   Heads of state and...