Climate finance in Ghana
An analysis of climate finance flows in Ghana shows that an annual average of USD 830 million was tracked in 2019 and 2020. This is a meagre 5-9% of its required investment — estimated between USD 9.3-15.5
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Exploring the agriculture-nutrition linkage in Northern Ghana
Despite progresses over the last few decades, undernutrition is widespread across Africa south of the Sahara. While agricultural interventions have traditionally focused on enhancing yields of few staple
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Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment
From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs
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EPA inaugurates two Committees to manage pesticides and chemicals
To safeguard Ghana’s environment from the harm of pesticides and chemicals transportation and usage, two Committees have been inaugurated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to ensure its sound
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Providing housing to slum dwellers is urgent policy issue – Study
Providing housing to slum dwellers, protecting them from natural disasters and diseases and connecting them to jobs and services through improved infrastructure are urgent policy issues in many sub-Saharan
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GIZ assists Ghana to develop insurance to mitigate climate risk
GIZ, a German Development Agency, in collaboration with the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), is partnering countries including Ghana to develop a climate resilience toolbox to mitigate climate
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Chocolate makers agree to stop cutting down forests in West Africa for cocoa
At COP23, the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany that wrapped up last week, top cocoa-producing countries in West Africa announced new commitments to end the massive deforestation for cocoa that is
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Tuberculosis spreading fast in urban setting in Ghana – Study
A population-based molecular epidemiological study has revealed that Tuberculosis (TB) is prevalent and fast spreading in the urban areas than in the rural settings. The study also indicated that males
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Ghana supplies Burkina Faso with 100MW electricity
Government has agreed to supply 100 megawatts of power to Burkina Faso after the country demanded for electricity from Ghana. Ghana has over the years supplied and received power from some West African
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Open defecation costs Ghana over $79 million a year- Report
Open defecation costs Ghana over 79 million dollars a year, a 2012 World Bank report says. It is also estimated, that one in five Ghanaians defecate openly, whilst only one in seven house-holds in the
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Fall armyworms destroy 1,000 hectares of maize in Central Region
One thousand hectares of 6,000 hectares maize farm in the Central Region have been completely destroyed by fall armyworm. Mr. Richard Baffour Asare, the Central Regional Operations Director of the National