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𝗔 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗘𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 While I hold hope for a better food system in Ghana, food insecurity is skyrocketing 🚨. SDG 2 may not be achievable for the next 10 years, or worse, indefinitely! 🕰️ Many youths advocate for SDGs to transform citizens' lives globally 🌎. However, my country's situation perpetuates global food insecurity . Illegal mining not only pollutes water 💧 but also impacts food production 🌾, citizens' income 💸, and vulnerability 🚫. I urge all youth: advocacy alone may not suffice, as few seem interested 🗣️. However, collective action amplifies our impact! 💪 There's power in thousands of voices! 🎯 Fellow Ghanaians and global citizens, let's defend nature! 🌟 Act now or regret forever ⏰. #FoodSecurity #SDG2 #Sustainability #DefendNature #YouthEmpowerment 💚 World Food Programme World Food Forum FAO

🤲 🍫 In the cocoa industry, the weakest shoulders often bear the heaviest burdens. 🌱 Climate change and unpredictable weather affect crop yields, and price volatility -both in selling prices and input costs - makes cocoa farming increasingly difficult. 📢 Private companies must engage in inclusive, long-term contracts with farmers. These contracts should be asymmetrical, designed to favour farmers, acknowledging the economic and social vulnerabilities which make them less resilient to shocks and less capable of counteracting risks. 🌍🤝 Join us and over 100 civil society organisations and farmer cooperatives in calling on companies for a #JustCocoaIndustry.  👉 https://lnkd.in/gsiC7dY9 👈     A call to action from Oxfam International, the INKOTA-netzwerk and Mighty Earth. Featured in the video: Raphael Kwame Frimpong, Cocoa Programme Officer for Rikolto in Ghana and KOUAME Amani Alphonse, Cocoa Programme Coordinator for Rikolto in West Africa #FortheLoveofChocolate #SharetheRisks #SustainableCocoa #SustainablePurchasing #LivingIncome

The negative effect of climate change on food production in Ghana is becoming unbearable as farmers keep waiting for the rains which are not coming. The only way forward to mitigate this devastation is to provide farmers with if not free at least affordable boreholes to irrigate their farms. Many people like myself are poised to scale up food production but the limiting factor is unavailability of water to grow the crops and animals. I have more than 10 acres of land good for all kinds of vegetables but no close water source to the land. If we can have investor who will invest in drilling boreholes for us, it will help mitigate crop failures due to climate change and make investment in Agribusiness profitable for everyone. Agribusiness has the potential to employ all the youths in Ghana if the right investments are made. I therefore invite all the stakeholders in food systems to direct investments into irrigation projects to save the situation else we shall die of hunger very soon. Daniel Amoako Antwi Impact Investing Ghana GIZ Ghana African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) Social Enterprise Ghana Ghana Enterprises Agency FAO UNDP World Food Programme #agribusiness #food_system #poverty_reduction

The new cocoa season is here! And we’re scaling up our impact – big time. 📈 Starting today, Tony’s Open Chain, our collaborative initiative for change, will be sourcing cocoa from an extra 8 co-ops in Côte d’Ivoire + Ghana. That’s about 13,200 (!!) more farmers than last season, a whoppin’ 62% increase. 💪🌍 And they’ll all receive a higher price for their cocoa long-term, enabling them to earn a living income and escape poverty. This amazing growth is mainly because we’re welcoming more (and more) Mission Allies to Tony’s Open Chain, each of whom adds to the total number of beans we source responsibly, according to Tony’s 5 Sourcing Principles – our tried-and-true rules for ending exploitation in cocoa. Cocoa sourced using Tony’s 5 Sourcing Principles is 100% deforestation-free, contributes significantly to farmer incomes and helps to reduce child labor from 46.7% (industry average) to 4.4% at long-term partner co-ops. ✅ And the more beans we source, the more impact we make, driving real change for millions of cocoa-farming families. 🤝🍫 Happy new cocoa season! #cocoaseason #tonyschocolonely #positiveimpact #poverty #childlabor #fairtrade #westafrica #livingincome

In our mission to empower smallholder farmers across Africa, we're excited to share an exciting journey we embarked upon some months ago.  Partnership with Heifer International under the AYuTe Africa initiative, we're revolutionising the agriculture sector as we enable financial inclusion access for 125,000 smallholder farmers across 8 northern Nigerian states. In this documentary, our Co-founder, Ayodeji Arikawe, along with key stakeholders from Heifer International, Lekan Tobe, Ph.D., Country Director and Tajuddeen Abubakar, Access to Finance Manager, Heifer Nigeria as well as Busayo Onome-Oyetunji of Crust Microfinance Bank, our implementing partner, discuss how we are breaking barriers to financial access by opening bank accounts, issuing debit cards, and deploying POS operators in rural communities.  With this project we've been able to give underserved farmers access to the resources they need to boost productivity, access the right financial support, and thrive economically. As part of the success of this initiative, our commitment to gender inclusion means 40% of beneficiaries are women, further driving equitable growth. Watch full documentary now on YouTube to see how we are building Africa’s largest network of profitable farmers, enabling financial solutions and ensuring long-term food security. Link below https://lnkd.in/dZNEH_Q8 #ThriveAgric #AYuTeAfrica #FinancialInclusion #SmallholderFarmers #Agritech #FoodSecurity #EmpoweringCommunities #RuralDevelopment Feed the Future World Food ProgrammeFAO International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Shell Foundation Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Power Africa

👩🏾🌾 💰 Recently the Norwegian government invested USD 9.5 million in the agrobusiness through Aceli Africa, an organisation that reduces the risk for banks in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Zambia. Typically, African banks don't lend to small or medium-sized businesses in the food industry because the sector is viewed as unprofitable and risky. Additionally, climate change increases the risk of crop failure, making agricultural businesses appear as a more risky investments. But with risk comes also reward, which is why almost 700,000 smallholder farmers are expected to benefit from the investment, as more than 4,000 businesses in the food chain are expected to receive financing.

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Fairtrade license fees fund Fairtrade producer networks--local experts who provide local support to farmers and workers on everything from income diversification to cooperative governance to agricultural best practices. ➡️ Swipe to meet Mercy Cheptoo Chumo, Youth Coordinator in the Nairobi office of Fairtrade Africa, who’s supporting the next generation of sustainable farmers at every turn. #TheFutureIsFair #NextGeneration #ResilientSupplyChains #TradeJustice

𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐒𝐀- 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐈𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 This presentation was carried out on the MAP's programme by Future Forward Farmers Hub 🧩Agriculture has been in place for a long time in Nigeria and can be dated back to pre-colonial time. 🧩We usually back then engaged in subsistence agriculture to feed the immediate family. With emphasis on crude implements like hoes and cutlass and the use of family for labour. 🧩The size of the family then determined the quality of farm work carried out, and most men married more than one wives and had numerous children to meet these needs. 🧩To expand into commercial farming properly in order to meet financial obligations and supplies to the growing populace, a change was needed, but a change that could be sustainable was better implemented in response to the climbing climate crisis. 𝙏𝙤 𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝘾𝙎𝘼 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙙. 🧩Put concisely, CSA encourages proper use and management of lands by the farmers, for profit, without harming the environment. 🧩Now, after careful deliberation and to be on par with the world in climate smart practices, the Government of Nigeria has adopted 4 ways to carry out CSA in the country as shown in the slides. 🧩Recently, to buttress this point, we heard news on Mr. President bringing in a crop variant that is Genetically modified to fill this need. 🧩We hope local businesses, spearheaded by youths, of which we here are part of, can adopt these practices; given its usefulness, to revolutionise how agriculture is done in Nigeria! . . In case you’re seeing my post for the first time, I am Barovwe Daniella Omoweh, a serial volunteer with a NEED to foster sustainable resource management, environmental and human health by pioneering SDGs 1, 2, 3 and 13: 𝗡𝗼 𝗽𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 #sdgs #CSA #agriculture #Nigerianyouths #UN

🛫 🌳 If we fly, we compensate. As an international network organisation, travel by air is necessary for our operations. Yet, we live by these principles: we always look for alternatives to flying, and when we do fly, we offset our travel. 🐝 In 2022, we started investing our carbon offsetting funds in a nature-based project led by the FairClimateFund: Birds, Bees and Business. This is the impact they have achieved. Do you offset your flights? We are curious to know how you go about this!