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Enyonam Manye, the host of the Ghanaian Farmer TV Show on Joy Prime TV, has been selected as one of six journalists from Ghana to participate in the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA ) Spring School Climate Change and Agriculture Conference from March 27 to 31 in South Africa.

There is no universal model for successfully delivering climate-smart agriculture. But the AICCRA experience in Ethiopia shows how engaging changemakers can reveal effective, inclusive, and localized ways to make farming communities more resilient to climate change.

CIMMYT trains Ethiopian national partners in crop monitoring and yield forecasting as part of AICCRA’s effort to improve climate information services.

Climate resilient improved maize and cowpea varieties have been introduced to some farmers in the Northern Region to help them save money and harvest good yields. The maize varieties, which are drought tolerant, and mature early (80 to 85 days) included Suhudoo, Opeaburo, Denbea, Abotem, and Wang-dataa. The cowpea varieties,…

The effect of the rampaging climate change has presented a considerable challenge to the socioeconomic development of Ghana where rain-fed agriculture provides livelihoods to millions of households. The environmental dilemma has dire repercussions for the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those relating to poverty reduction…

While climate change threatens food systems globally, African agriculture is particularly susceptible to its impacts.

A group of African agricultural researchers have called on the Ghanaian authorities to develop cost-effective technologies that are climate resilient for farmers to ensure food security. They said Ghana must improve and promote accessibility of validated climate information services, build her resilience to climate shocks and prepare her Nationally Determined…

With the pandemic raging in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and quarantines and travel restrictions shutting down trade, vast swathes of farmland lay

About two million Ghanaian smallholder farmers are to benefit from a climate smart agriculture initiative that preserves soil, water, plant, animal and human health. The project, which would end in 2024, focuses on farmers’ ability to adopt technologies and practices for maize, yam, sweet potato, cowpea and other vegetable production,…

About two million Ghanaian smallholder farmers are to benefit from a climate smart agriculture initiative that preserves soil, water, plant, animal and human health. The project, which would end in 2024, focuses on farmers’ ability to adopt technologies and practices for maize, yam, sweet potato, cowpea and other vegetable production,…