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Going beyond undernourishment on World Food Day 2018  Ghana celebrated this year’s World Food Day with local chiefs, schoolchildren and crucial stakeholders in agriculture at Nsawam, a farming community in the Akuapem South Municipality in the Eastern Region.    With a global theme, “Our actions are our future: a Zero Hunger world by...

Leverages power of academia and small and medium enterprises The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Government of Japan, renewed their commitment in ensuring food systems contribute to healthy food environments to deliver healthy diets for citizens of Ghana.  The FAO-organized, Japan-funded stakeholder consultative workshops focused...

FAO and Government authorities in Ghana and Namibia have signed separate agreements to receive assistance to enhance their capacity to implement the Port State Measures Agreement.  The agreements were signed by Ghana's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development on 2 March 2018 and by Namibia's Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources...

Because transboundary animal diseases (TADs) are not confined by borders, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Emergency Management Center for Animal Health (EMC-AH) in collaboration with the FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) Regional Office organized a Good Emergency Management Practice (GEMP) workshop from...

5 June 2018, Accra - A participatory strategy and action plan workshop (gap analysis) involving national institutions is currently on-going in Accra, Ghana, to assist the country in ascertaining the need to strengthen national legislation, institutional set up, and monitoring, control and surveillance systems and operations consistent with the provisions of...