Collective Responsibility
From the blog of Jeffrey Levine at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Jeffrey Levine at The Times of Israel
Stanbic Bank Ghana has partnered with the Pears Program for Global Innovation, the Israeli Embassy in Ghana, and The Israeli Trade Mission to Ghana to host this year’s Pears Challenge Pitching and Networking Event. The event, which brought together stakeholders and startups in agriculture, aimed at unearthing solutions to some…
+ Dried cocoa beans are packed in hessian sacks on a cocoa farm near Amankwakram in Western Ghana on the border with Ivory coast February 14, 2011. REUTERS/Hereward Holland Before he became the poultry king of Ghana, Kwabena Darko was a young student in central Israel. Hailing from a small village in Ghana’s southern Ashanti region, Darko won a scholarship in the late 1950s to study poultry science and agriculture at the Ruppin Institute, near the Israeli city of Netanya. By 1967, he had returned to his home country and left his family pasture to start Darko Farms, which has since grown to ...