Erratic rainfall and rising temperatures have hit farmers in Ghana’s semiarid Upper East region hard in recent years. Planting rows of trees and allowing goats and sheep to graze their fields is ...
Many countries in the sub-Saharan Africa continue to experience intense urbanisation which affects urban agriculture in many ways. In Ghana, this has resulted in an extreme land scarcity for urban ...
A solar-powered mechanised water system has been commissioned at Wiesi, a farming community in the Builsa district to address water scarcity and promote peaceful coexistence between local residents ...
A Fulani herder near Ouangolodougou, in northern Côte d’Ivoire close to the borders with Burkina Faso and Mali, pictured in 2020. © Issouf Sanogo/AFP Livestock ...
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Two main reasons have accounted for this dysfunction of the financial system. First, the foreign domination of Ghana’s ...
Almost half of Ghana’s labor force are farmers. The crops they grow – cocoa, cassava, yams, bananas, and corn – are largely dependent on rain-fed water sources. With a dry season that typically lasts ...