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Date Issued: November 2, 2018 The Peasant Farmers’ Association of Ghana (PFAG) has held a day’s policy dialogue on Post-Harvest Loss and Food & Nutrition Security in Accra. The meeting which brought together key stakeholders in the Agriculture and Nutrition sector in the country was meant to examine the current both post -harvest loss and

Updated: Nov 2, 2018 Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana and Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) are advocating the adoption of the agroecology farming concept to help maintain soil fertility and boost food production in the country. Mohammed Abdul-Rahman, the President of PFAG said, agroecology farming, which sought to promote the use of organic

Updated: Nov 2, 2018 Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) members from all the ten regions of Ghana attending a two-day roundtable on farmers’ access to quality inputs, identified investing in quality inputs as key to increasing crop yields. Welcome to your blog post. Use this space to connect with your readers and potential customers in

Date Issued: October 9,2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana is highly disappointed with the posture of the National Biosafety Authority in handling activities related to GMOs in Ghana. The National Biosafety Authority was instituted in 2017 after the passage of the Biosafety Act 2011, (Act 831) to independently among other things, regulate the activities

Date Issued: September 14,2018 Smallholder farmers across the country have urged government to, as a matter of urgency, take steps to end the violence and threat posed by the activities of nomadic herdsmen in the country. According to the farmers who are members of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), the activities of the

Date Issued: September 13,2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) and the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) are farmer-based organisations with many years of participation and experience in agricultural production in Ghana. We observe with sadness like many Ghanaians do, the perennial flooding in the country especially in

Date Issued: August 27, 2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) is calling on the government to make budgetary allocations to local seed growers in the annual budget to strengthen local seed production. The Association’s call is included in a nine-point communiqué issued after an inception workshop at the Noguchi Memorial Institute of the

Date Issued: Aug 21,2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) and Centre for Development Research and Agro-Innovation (CEDRAI) and other CSOs are disappointed with the extent to which the largest agro-poisonous chemical and seed company, “Monsanto” has managed to brainwash some

Updated: Aug 17, 2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana is beginning the implementation of a programme to monitor government flagship agricultural projects. The farmer group intends to monitor the famous Planting for Food and Jobs, One Village One Dam and the One district One Factory projects and to assess how they perform. Speaking to Joy

Date Issued: Aug 7,2018 Ghana has over the last few years been battling with conflicts between herdsmen and crop farmers which sometimes result in fatalities on both sides. The conflict is primarily about resource use, damage to crops and water bodies by cattle, non-existence of regulated transhumant corridors and crop farming along the valleys of