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Ghana: Go Back, Retrieve It
The Sankofa Project seeks to investigate the gendered socio-economic effects of the fisheries closure in four coastal regions of Ghana to understand how the policy affects communities.
A research project was launched in Ghana to focus on equitable, inclusive and sustainable fisheries management. Titled Creating Synergies between Indigenous Practices and Scientific...
Ghana
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Yemaya Recommends: Women in Small-scale Fisheries in Ghana – the unsung heroines
This documentary showcases Ghana where the most pressing issues are those of overfishing and pollution due to a rapid decline of fisheries in the country.
“I’ve learned that I should do away with fear,” declares Juliana Anna Dogbe Kumado a fishmonger in Ghana and a participant in the One Ocean Hub...
Ghana
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
How to bridge the missing middle working with climate-smart SMEs, intermediaries, financers and policy makers?
The objective of this impact report is to gain consolidated impact insights and lessons learned from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) financed SEED project: Financing and capacity building for micro and small climate-smart enterprises: Filling the gap of the missing middle.
The 5-year global SEED project was operating in Ghana, India,...
Ghana - India - Indonesia - South Africa - Thailand - Uganda
2024 - SEED
Blog article
Knowledge sharing to improve the sustainability of food systems in West Africa: Lessons learned from the Food Systems Caravan
Knowledge sharing and co-creation for application offer pathways for the multidimensional challenges of food systems in West Africa which are to date still largely underexplored. They have the potential for the emergence of effective communities of practice to tackle some of the serious threats West African food systems face today,...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Ghana - Mali - Nigeria
2024
Article
Making Climate-Smart Cocoa Inclusive: Towards a Framework for Gender Transformation
Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC), a strategic offshoot of the wider Climate-Smart Agriculture, is gaining ground in Ghana, a cocoa export-dependent country. CSC is imperative, given the rapidly declining forests, prolonged periods of drought, pest and disease infestations, and fluctuating cocoa yields attributed to climate variability and change. Although many interventions are...
Ghana
2024 - University of South Africa
Journal article
Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
Seed systems are essential to bring good genetic material to farmers. Women farmers, however, have benefited less than men farmers from seed systems in low and middle income countries. We identify factors that inhibit and promote women's success in seed businesses through three case studies of women's and men's entrepreneurship...
Ghana - Kenya - United Republic of Tanzania
2024
Journal article
Consistency in climate change impact reports among indigenous peoples and local communities depends on site contexts
Indigenous Peoples and local communities are heavily affected by climatic changes. Investigating local understandings of climate change impacts, and their patterned distribution, is essential to effectively support monitoring and adaptation strategies. In this study, we aimed to understand the consistency in climate change impact reports and factors influencing consistency at...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - China - Fiji - Ghana - Kenya - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania
2024 - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Report
Advancing agrobiodiversity: why organisations of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are vital
Agrobiodiversity is the subset of biodiversity found within agricultural ecosystems. It feeds us with nutrients vital to our health. It fuels and furnishes our homes. It underpins cultural traditions. It sustains farm productivity in the face of climate change. But agrobiodiversity is rapidly being lost.
Just three crops account for half...
Ecuador - Ghana - Madagascar - Nepal - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2024 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Blog article
Peasant Farmers Association trains 50 farmers on agro-ecology
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) recently trained 50 farmers in the Bono East Region on agroecology and sustainable farming practices during a two-day workshop in Techiman, supported by the international NGO, 11th Hour. The training covered organic fertilizer preparation, composting, pest control, and livestock rearing, aiming to enhance...
Ghana
2024
Blog article
All-women cooperative transforming cocoa waste into energy in Ghana
In a groundbreaking move, as part of MoMo4C, Tropenbos Ghana has launched a Waste-to-Energy pilot project in the Sefwi Wiawso Juaboso Bia (SWJB) landscape with an all-women cocoa cooperative. By turning cocoa waste into a valuable resource, this model aims to create new avenues for income generation, livelihood diversification, and...
Ghana
2024 - Tropenbos International
Report
ICSF's Brochure on Social Development and Fishing Communities
This brochure contains the challenges and recommendations from the eight countrie’s case studies on ‘Social Development and Sustainable Fisheries’ conducted by ICSF in Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Ghana, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Brazil, Thailand and India (Kerala/Tamil Nadu and West Bengal).
The ICSF’s studies uses the parameters of social development, within...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bangladesh - Brazil - Costa Rica - Ghana - India - Philippines - Thailand
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
SAMUDRA Report No.91, June 2024
The Triannual Journal of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelehoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 91, dated June 2024, is a Special Issue that runs into 110 pages and features a diverse range of...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bangladesh - Brazil - Canada - Chile - China - Costa Rica - France - Ghana - India - Japan - Nicaragua - Senegal - Sri Lanka - Uganda - United States of America - Viet Nam
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter No.69, June 2024: ICSF´s newsletter on gender and fisheries
Yemaya No. 69, dated June 2024, features articles from Barbados, India, Spain, a regional study focusing on Kenya, Sri Lanka and Cambodia and Women in Fisheries Action plans from ICSF’s IYAFA workshops from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean Islands.
A series of regional workshops were held through...
Barbados - Ghana - India - Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Harnessing the power of forests for resilient agriculture
A Brazilian farmer’s parable about the effects of a local forest on his crops and his region has stayed with Ludmila Rattis, a scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, for years. In the telling, a water spring was an eye, and the trees surrounding it were eyelashes. Mother Nature...
Brazil - Ghana
2024 - Siani
Report
BRIDGING THE GAP: Policy Innovations to Put Women at the Center of Food Systems Transformation in Africa
This report by the Malabo Montpellier Panel discusses gender inequalities. It emphasizes the importance of women’s participation in all aspects of agrifood systems while providing actionable recommendations to enhance their role and impact. The report also highlights successful policy innovations that can be upscaled to drive positive change.
Ethiopia - Ghana - Rwanda - Togo
2024 - Malabo Montpellier Panel
Book
Institutional and economic perspectives on distant-water fisheries access arrangements
This summary outlines the information contained in the “Institutional and Economic Perspectives on Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements” report (2024), which is an expansion of the first report the “Mapping Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements”, published in 2022.This report conducts a more targeted examination of the economic dynamics, policy drivers, and institutional...
China - Ghana - Japan - Namibia
2024 - FAO
Book
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
Case study
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)
Report
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
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