While politicians in Ghana are debating whether recent reports about high food prices in Ghana are true or not a recent by WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE concludes that “there is reason to believe that food commodity prices will be both higher and more volatile in the decades to come.”
Ghana Food
- Japan Boosts Financial Support for African Development - Voice of America
- Nigeria joins Ghana as new member of G8 food security alliance - GhanaWeb
- FAO honours Ghana for reducing hunger by half, ahead of 2015 targets - Myjoyonline.com
- Ghana Set To Receive UN Food and Agriculture Organization Award In Rome ... - Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
- Why the growth of modern retail should be good news to African farmers - How we made it in Africa
- New Market Study, "Ghana Food & Drink Report Q2 2013", Has Been Published - SBWire (press release)
- Climate change impacting food supply in Ghana - Times of India
- Africa's development hinges on food security – UN agencies - Ghana Business News
- Parts of northern Ghana is food insecure - WFP - Myjoyonline.com
- Contribution of Forests to Food Security Needs Attention - AllAfrica.com
Tag Archive: FAO
Oct 22
Global food prices to spike, reserves to plummet in 2013
If you’re eating something right now, you’re going to want to stop. Not because this post is gross. Because you might want to save that to eat when the world runs out of food in a few months.
Oct 16
World Food Day 2012: Agricultural cooperatives – Key to feeding the world
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
Aug 31
Access to water key for food security: FAO chief
STOCKHOLM — Global food security starts with ensuring access to water, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said at the beginning of World Water Week Monday.
Aug 31
Africa: Greener Cities Crucial to African Food Security
Rome — Africa’s urban population is growing faster than that of any other region, but many of its cities are not keeping pace with the increasing demand for food that comes with that growth. A new FAO publication says policymakers need to act now to ensure that African cities will be “green” enough to meet …
Aug 24
Ignoring women in agriculture comes at a cost
Ignoring the gender gap in agriculture has huge economic dimensions. If we want the situation to improve for female farmers we have to make it all about economics! This was the advice given by Ann Tutwiler (FAO) in the learning event ‘How can agricultural innovation better empower women and their key roles in food and …
Mar 25
Forum to tackle food insecurity in Africa
As Africa grapples with acute food shortages and starvation, leading thinkers in agriculture, climate change and the environment are to gather in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, this April to review innovative ways to tackle the continents unending cycle of drought and food insecurity.
Mar 20
Rising food prices hard to stomach
Rising oil prices are attracting the attention of inflation-worried investors. But lurking in the background is an even bigger risk for inflation vigilantes: rising food prices.
Mar 12
FAO says additional $69.8m needed to address imminent food, nutrition crisis in Sahel
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) is calling for additional funds to head-off an imminent food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa.
Mar 12
FAO Calls For An Additional Fund To Fight Famine
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is calling for at least 69.8 million dollars in additional funding to provide assistance to 790,000 vulnerable farming and herding households.