Agroecology in Africa: Silver bullet or pathway to poverty?
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Agroecology in Africa: Silver bullet or pathway to poverty?
A MODEL of agroecology that limits farming inputs in Africa to solely indigenous materials is meeting resistance from farmers and others who worry it will most likely force even more people on the continent into poverty and hunger.
By Joseph Opoku Gakpo
“The agroecology promoters will use terms like indigenous foods, indigenous crops, indigenous everything. Like we want to exclude new varieties that are coming. But even the corn we eat today is not from Africa. It’s from America,” observed Pacifique Nshimiyimana, a young farmer and agricultural enterpreneur from Rwanda.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will open the 72nd Annual New Year School and Conference tomorrow, Tuesday, January 19th at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.
The School is on the theme, “Building Ghana in the Face of Global Health Crises”.
It is being organised by the School of Continuing and Distance Education, College of Education, University of Ghana.
The opening ceremony will be chaired by Mrs Mary Chinery-Hesse, Chancellor, University of Ghana, while Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, will give the welcome remarks.
The keynote address will be delivered by Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, the Presidential Co-ordinator of Government of Ghana’s COVID-19 Response Programme and Former Deputy Director-General, World Health Organization.
President Akufo-Addo will open the 72nd Annual New Year School and Conference today, Tuesday, January 19 at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.