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
Ghana
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Stakeholders call for faecal sludge management policy
Stakeholders in sanitation in the Greater Accra Metropolis have called for the urgent need to develop alternate faecal sludge and waste water management approaches to address the sanitation problem.
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Students develop technology to boost rice production
The students are from a range of engineering subjects as well as agribusiness, and ICT courses A group of tertiary-level students has developed technologies to address challenges of rice production
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Reconciling forest conservation with food production in sub-Saharan Africa: case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania
Forest cover in sub-Saharan Africa declined by nearly 10 per cent between 2000 and 2010. Of this loss, 75 per cent was caused by the conversion of forest to agriculture, largely for food production to
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Association between socioeconomic position and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Ghanaians in different geographic locations: the RODAM study
<p>The prevalence of diabetes has been shown to be socially patterned but the direction of the association in low-income countries and among migrant populations in Europe has varied in the literature.
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Ghana ratifies Mercury Convention in the midst of illegal mining row
Ghana has ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of the toxic liquid metal. The West African country has been a signatory to
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MP urges gov’t to tread cautiously on illegal mining clamp down
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia North, Mr Collins Owusu Amankwah has advised government to tread cautiously with its quest to stop illegal mining in the country. He explained that
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Germany supports Ghana with €25 million to tackle e-waste menace
Germany is to support Ghana with €25 million euros to tackle its growing electronic waste menace. The fund is to support the establishment of structures for the effective collection and recycling
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MP alarmed at increased rate of illegal felling of rosewood
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has expressed alarm at the increased rate of illegal felling of rosewood, an endangered tropical hardwood specie, in the Builsa South
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Ghanaian invents cheaper way of building houses
In an attempt to fight the menace of plastic waste and also bridge the housing deficit gap in Ghana, a young man in his thirties has come out with an innovation to build houses using plastic bottles. The
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Danger! Upsurge in bitters producers threaten extinction of Ghana’s forest reserves
Large quantities of trees are harvested daily from Prakaw Forest Reserve to brew bitters, Salifu Baba Adams, a member of Forest Watch Ghana (FWG,) has revealed. According to him, community members