Action - Food Security and Environment Facility - Promotion of food security and agriculture - Adult men and women

Programme: Food Security and Environment Facility

Programme description

This project supports Ghana's efforts to achieve food security through environmentally sound agricultural initiatives in the country's three northern (and poorest) regions. It provides funding for local initiatives developed by Ghanaian non-governmental organizations and the private sector in collaboration with Canadian and international organizations.

This project is expected to:

  • increase the use of innovative, environmentally sound agricultural technologies and practices in target communities;
  • enhance the ability of Ghanaian organizations to support food security and sustainable agriculture in Ghana's three northern regions; and
  • foster the capacity of local organizations to promote equality between women and men.

Programme type

Community/sub-national

Cost

CA$ 15,000,000

References

Status: 
On-going

Start date:

January
2008

End date:

January
2016
Area: 
Rural
Place: 
3 northern (poorest) regions of Ghana
Target group: 
Adult men and women
Delivery: 
Community-based
Implementation details : 

This project is expected to:

  • increase the use of innovative, environmentally sound agricultural technologies and practices in target communities;
  • enhance the ability of Ghanaian organizations to support food security and sustainable agriculture in Ghana's three northern regions; and
  • foster the capacity of local organizations to promote equality between women and men.
Target population size : 
4,020 farmers (1,300 women) as April 2012
Coverage level (%): 
The 3 northern (poorest) regions of Ghana
Outcome indicator(s): 

Results as of April 2012 include:

  • increased awareness of 4,020 farmers (1,300 women) of environmentally sound agricultural practices for the improved production of maize, soybean, ground nut, onions, mangoes and cage fish farming;
  • increased crop yields for maize and soybean;
  • introduction of new practices such as dry-season gardening in communities with highly degraded lands; and
  • five Ghanaian non-governmental and private sector organizations trained in financial and results-based management and gender equality.

These activities are helping to improve food security in Ghana’s three poorest, northern regions, and to strengthen the capacity of Ghanaian organizations to support both women and men in practising sustainable agriculture.

Baseline: 
Awareness farmers on environmentally sound agricultural practices.
Post-intervention: 

Crop yields; new practices such as dry-season gardening in communities with highly degraded lands.

Outcome reported by social determinants: 
Vulnerable groups

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