Star status can bring the opportunity for celebrities to wear many hats and draw attention to environmental and health issues. Whether they are producing or performing music for fair trade campaigns, designing ethically sourced products, or growing food for the hungry, these 10 stars are using…
The annual International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID), initiated by the Prolinnova international network, is held on 29 November. The day offers a time to celebrate and stimulate the creativity of innovative farmers and to provide sources of inspiration to farmers and other stakeholders in…
On the occasion of the International Symposium on “Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition”, a special youth session organized by FAO and YPARD is taking place on 2 December 2016 from 12:45 to 13:45 (CET) at FAO HQ, Rome, Italy. The aim of the youth session is to identify…
On 14–18 November 2016, the Promoting local innovation for food and nutrition security (Proli–FaNS) project was launched with a meeting of all partners in Accra, Ghana. Proli-FaNS is a 3-year project supported by MISEREOR / KatholischeZentralstelle e.V.“ (KZE, Germany) through a grant of the “One…
In spite of abundant modern technologies and ICTs available for use in increasing information access and agricultural productivity, most Ghanaian smallholder farmers who constitute the majority in the agricultural sector do not have access to these new innovations. The result has been a failure to…
Smallholder farmers make up 60% of Ghana’s working population. They provide a large portion of the food consumed in the country, yet many struggle to make a good living. A major problem they face is accessing information about farming and about trends along other parts of the value chain, such as…