Ghana Country Platform

September 2018 The May–July 2018 progress report for Proli-FaNS – coordinated by ACDEP/Ghana – gives an overview of activities and achievements of the Prolinnova Country Platforms in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya; of the subregional coordinators for West & Central Africa and for Eastern & Southern Africa; and of the International Support Team.

During 2017, Prolinnova–Ghana re-organised its National Steering Committee to strengthen the Country Platform’s governance and supported small-scale farmers in selected communities in participatory innovation development (PID) and local innovation processes under the three-year Proli-FaNS project. The host NGO (ACDEP) also organised learning events for farmers at community level as well as for institutional stakeholders and …

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In 2016, Prolinnova–Ghana engaged in sharing and learning from field activities of network institutions and NGOs to promote local innovation and Participatory Innovation Development (PID), joint planning and starting up the project “Promoting local innovation in Food and Nutrition Security” (Proli-FANS), preparing to host IPW 2017, and meetings of the National Steering Committee and Working …

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An innovation by the Ghanaian farmer John Akugre, who uses a locally available plant to protect stored onion seed, has been recognised by CTA as one of the Top 20 innovations that benefit smallholder farmers. See the brochure Barakuk: a natural protector for onion seed, documented by the Prolinnova–Ghana member organisation Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocesan Development …

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