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The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana with support from the 11th Hour Project organized a dialogue with stakeholders including farmers, Civil Society Organizations in the agroecology space, officials of the department of agriculture and the media. The engagement convened over forty participants drawn from across the Eastern, Volta and Oti regions and was held at

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, with support from the 11th Hour Project organized a two-day training session for members of the association. The training, which centred on promoting agroecology and sustainable farming, practices among farmers, was held at the Caleb Farms at Asuboni Rails in the Kwahu East district of the Eastern region. In

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) engaged its members, civil society and other allied groups in the Upper West Region to create awareness on the existence and dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) which have been commercialized in Ghana. The event was organized at the regional library in the Wa municipalility in the Upper

On 23rd of August, 2024, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana met with selected members in the Shama district of the Western region. The engagement which was aimed at strengthening the capacities of stakeholders on agroecology convened sixty participants (60) drawn from across the region including farmers, civil society organizations, the director of agriculture, assembly

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) with support from GIZ and OXFAM in Ghana organized a one-day workshop convening various stakeholders across the country including members of the association, civil society organizations, donors, input dealers, aggregators and other stakeholders.  The purpose of the event was to validate the findings collated from consultations with PFAG

The 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated growth and transformation for shared prosperity, signed by African Heads of States, with the goal to end hunger, halve poverty, boost intra-African agricultural trade, enhance investment financing and resilience to climate variability through inclusive agricultural growth and transformation is set to end in December 2024.

As part of final engagements on the PFJ 2.0, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) engaged stakeholders across the Southern belt to deliberate on the government’s “Planting for Food and Jobs Phase Two” (PFJ 2.0). The program, organized with support from OXFAM, was held in Accra and brought together farmers, input dealers, civil society

The PFAG, as part of the zonal consultation exercise on the PFJ 2.0 organized the middle belt consultative workshop with stakeholders in Techiman, in the Bono East region. The workshop which forms part of the project on Deepening agricultural governance, under the Together Against Poverty (TAP) program, supported by OXFAM, brought together stakeholders including farmers,

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), as part of efforts to ensure that farmers’ concerns are considered in government programs, organized a stakeholder consultation workshop on the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ 2.0). The event which took place in Tamale, with funding from OXFAM, brought together farmers, input dealers, regional and district officers

Approval of GMOs in Ghana will destroy the agricultural sector as Ghanaian farmers will now depend on multinationals for seeds The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana expresses our disappointment and condemns the Government of Ghana’s interest in promoting the agenda of multinational seed companies through their agents in Ghana for recently approving the commercialization of