Highlights

Published: 02 March 2017

Busy, busy, busy…This quarter has been huge for our young agripreneurs in the GFAR-YPARD Young Agripreneurs Project. It’s now 10 months on since they thrilled the audiences at GCARD3 with their enthusiasm, drive and energy in describing their projects. These have all started, with the young agripreneurs matched with mentors, engaged in coaching and training, and utilizing their seed funding aligned with their business plans. There have been the inevitable ups and downs – all part of being a young agripreneur and it’s great to see that they are all on track and embracing the challenges and opportunities that the YAP project has offered.

Published: 22 February 2017

Lancée en mars 2014 par de jeunes Togolais, la société Choco Togo s’est spécialisée dans la production de chocolat bio en utilisant des méthodes traditionnelles. Plus de deux ans après, la coopérative ambitionne de multiplier sa production et de conquérir de nouveaux marchés.

Published: 21 February 2017

Experts are seeking innovative ways of financing rural and subsistence agriculture to boost food production, develop agriculture and transform rural communities, DANIEL ESSIET reports.

Published: 01 March 2017

Agricultural growth needs to move from donor-dependency to profitable trade-driven agriculture. That’s coming from the President Ghana Agricultural Chamber of Commerce.

Some analysts have attributed the decrease in agricultural investment, as well as a decline in the performance of the agricultural sector to low public investments.

Published: 21 February 2017

How can youth unemployment be addressed? It is by massive investments in agriculture, say experts. DANIEL ESSIET reports.

Published: 16 February 2017

Good news stories about transformation in African agriculture abound with some positive statistics to back them up. The general story is that farmers are adopting improved agricultural practices, that productivity is increasing and that rural economies are burgeoning.

Published: 27 February 2017

Young people are the future—and present—of agriculture. As we look to dramatically and sustainably scale-up agricultural production to meet

Published: 21 February 2017

Ghanaian agritech startup TroTro Tractor has raised US$50,000 funding from oil and gas firm KOSMOS Energy, as well as mentorship from the  Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST).

Published: 15 February 2017

    The understanding of agriculture by many young people or naive person is limited to farming which has to do with cultivating crops and harvesting the cultivated crops. This invariably means that many did not think beyond the primary production end of crops farming.

The secret behind agriculture as a goldmine to tap into remains that agriculture comprises of many enterprises along the value chain which has more return on income based on understanding and management practices put in place.