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July 21, 2023
The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources responsible for Lands and Forestry, Benito Owusu-Bio, presented cheques for payment to beneficiaries of the first tranche of Carbon payments for verified reductions from the Carbon Fund of the World Bank.
November 17, 2022
‘Galamsey’ Reversing Climate Change Achievements — Occupyghana
November 16, 2022
The OccupyGhana, a pressure group, has reiterated its call on the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to take drastic action to stop the activities of illegal miners, popularly known as ‘galamsey’. In its 7th letter to the President, dated November 14, 2022, the Group said achievements recorded in the reduction…
November 9, 2022
Ghana Receives Climate Change Grant
November 9, 2022
Ghana Receives Climate Change Grant
October 1, 2022
The Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small Scale Mining Project (GLRSSMP) would strategically empower communities to fight the challenges of climate change and restore degraded landscape and forest reserves. This will also ensure integrated forest, water and natural resources management to improve upon agriculture productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable communities. Ms…
July 13, 2022
About 13 hectares of degraded lands at Takorayiri, a farming community in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region has been restored to provide protection to water bodies in the area. It also served as a buffer zone to the Kudani River, a tributary of the White Volta…
March 26, 2022
A review and planning workshop towards the effective implementation of the $103million Ghana natural resources management and sustainable landscape restoration project has been held for stakeholders in the Northern part of Ghana. The event, which was held in the Upper Eat Regional capital, Bolgatanga, brought together Directors and officers from…
February 6, 2021
Shea butter farming can drive living standards and business prospects in Ghana. A project to replenish savannas also aims to erase red tape that blocks women from building farming businesses. Our reporter talks to project sponsors and regulators to spell out hopes, metrics, and lessons flowing into and out of this effort. (Courtesy Ghana Forestry Commission.) Can this soil nourish entrepreneurs as well as crops? In Ghana, forests rich in gold, timber, and other products back a mainly ag...