Ghana

ILRI Projects in Ghana

May 2018May 2020

Market Intervention for Nutritional Improvement (MINI) Project

MINI is one of ILRI’s flagship projects in which the use of participatory system dynamics (SD) models has been applied in the context of analyzing agri-food and livestock value chains. This approach facilitates a mediated discussion with 10-15 value chain actors in a series of focus group meetings...

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

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Jan 2010May 2013

Volta Basin Development Challenge: integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agro-ecosystems

Given the economic, social and environmental vulnerability due to high water scarcity and variability in the basin, improvements in rainwater management are needed for ensuring sustainable and equitable benefits. This project intends to identify, evaluate, adapt, and disseminate best-fit integrated...

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Africa RISING feed

24 Sep 2019

Establishing shared prosperity: Farmers’ groups in northern Ghana set ground rules for using maize shellers

Members of Enye, Nyuri kye Tuna, Tinyogtaa, Zielewye Tidiewulibu, Kandabanye, Sungdiye-Taa, Lanzin and Tie-Taa Maale Farmers Groups pose for a photo with Africa RISING Ghana project staff after a capacity building training on developing group constitution. Photo credit: Wilhelmina Ofori-Duah/IITA...

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Africa RISING feed

22 Aug 2019

Key take-aways from a recent Africa RISING exchange visit in Ghana

Themed exchange visits to strategically selected project sites have been used over the years within the Africa RISING program to promote cross-learning and experience sharing among partners implementing the program’s activities in different countries. On 17-21 June 2019, activity sites in northern...

Africa RISING communications

Africa RISING feed

30 Apr 2019

Anecdotes of sustainable intensification (video)

Supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the US government’s Feed the Future initiative, the Africa RISING project is working to create opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainable intensified...