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Nestlé has announced a partnership with the Africa Food Prize to help accelerate the transformation of food systems in Africa. The global food giant sees the move as a way of strengthening the continent’s food security and building…
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a $27.9 million grant for Ghana's Savannah agriculture development project in the Savannah region. The grant is expected to help increase climate-resilient production of…
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Work on the EUR 5.36 million agro-food processing project in Kara, 423 kilometres north of Lomé, the capital city of Togo, is making steady progress. In the pilot agropole supported by African Development Bank (AfDB), engineers and…
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) and partners have launched a $520 million Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones(SAPZ) programme to transform Nigeria’s agriculture. This move has been necessitated by AfDB’s commitment to ending…
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Yara, a global leader in agro-input production, has launched the Yara Grow Ghana Initiative to support thousands of smallholder farmers in the West African country to boost food production. Pursuant to the initiative, Yara Ghana earlier…
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Chief Executive Officer of National Food Buffer Stock Company( NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab and the Board Chairman of the company, Mr Henry Nana Boakye took advantage of the just-ended International Forum on African-Caribbean…
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Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Mr Hanan Abdul-Wahab, says the task to improve the global food insecurity situation will require a concerted effort rather than what he described as…
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A baseline survey conducted by the Coconut Waste Project (COWAP) shows that there is a growing market for coconut peat (mulch) growing medium in Ghana, Chief Executive of CocoBenz, Bender Owusu Bediako Antwi has said. Speaking to the…
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Ghana has ranked 9th in the export of desiccated coconut according to a report by Ghana Export Promotion Authority, GEPA. This development comes on the heels of a significant jump of 249% in the value of Ghana’s exports of flaked and…
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The Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) Ghana Country Director, Robert Austin, is leading calls for measures to improve productivity in cashew production in  Ghana. He made the call at a sensitization programme on a new Code…
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