The pressing need to improve environmental sustainability and resilience became manifest in Pakistan in 2022, when severe floods destroyed crops across two-thirds of the country’s food basket.
In 2019, the Danish government disbursed N1.6 billion to help women shea butter producers in Nigeria. But the project closed early and reached very few of the women it targeted. Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Nelly Kalu travelled to Oyo and Kwara State to investigate the impact of the project. Adebimpe, a shea nut collector, is stooped […]
Established in 2014, the GAIN Nordic Alliance is a multi-sector platform with the ambition to facilitate scalable and inclusive business models, which enhance the nutritional value of food in developing countries.
President Akufo-Addo and Her Majesty Margrethe II at the Flagstaff House
If you start looking for things that Denmark and Ghana have in common, you will most definitely come across agriculture. Although Denmark is a small country with a population of 5,8 million, Danish farmers every year produce enough food to feed 15 million people. In Ghana, the agricultural sector is the most important economic sector employing more than half the population and the potential for productivity gains are abundant.
The government of Ghana has initiated a number of initiatives to modernize the agricultural sector. Programmes like Planting for Food and Jobs and 1D1F have been put in place to improve productivity and expand agribusiness in the country, all contributing to  the development of an ecosystem of companies, well equipped to engage in both domestic, regional and international trade.