How can Ghana maintain its current high level of cocoa bean output and production?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Anthony Fofie, CEO, Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) from The Report: Ghana 2012
Articles & Analysis | Growing with the times: Efforts to update the palm oil sector in approach and technique remain under way from The Report: Ghana 2012
Palm oil production in Ghana has surged in recent decades, thanks to a top-down approach that may offer a preview of how the government wants to improve its agricultural sector. The country has found success in partnering with the private sector on large-scale projects. It has invested in the sector by founding and supporting the Oil Palm Research...
Articles & Analysis | Going industrial: Impetus to shift from small sharecropper farms to larger producers is coming from within and without from The Report: Ghana 2012
Crucial to the economy, Ghana’s agricultural sector is the country’s largest employer and a significant contributor to its production value. Together with economic growth opportunities, a push for a stronger food security policy has created a drive to modernise farming business in recent years. The aim is to boost yields without sacrificing jobs....
Articles & Analysis | Global land deals: Countries are buying arable land abroad to ensure food security from The Report: Ghana 2012
When food prices soared in 2008 and late 2010 as a result of poor harvests, growing energy costs, low stocks and climate-related problems, it sparked popular unrest across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and prompted governments to look for long-term solutions to food security. The resulting policies ranged from raising subsidies to...
Chapter | Agriculture from The Report: Ghana 2012
As the country’s largest employer, the agriculture sector accounts for 28.3% of GDP and produces cereals, grains, fruits, vegetables, shea nuts, starchy staple crops and cotton, among other plants. Cultivated in six of the country’s 10 regions, cocoa is Ghana’s top agricultural export, rising to a value of $1.42bn in 2009. Indeed, having produced a record 1m tonnes in 2011, Ghana is the world’s...
Articles & Analysis | Packing it in: Local firms hold their own while competing alongside global giants from The Report: Thailand 2012
Producing far more food than the country’s population consumes domestically, Thailand’s agro-manufacturing industry is a major export sector and is home to a number of large operations run by some of the world’s largest food processors. Of the $28.88bn in agro-manufactured products exported in 2011, sugar accounted for the greatest value at $16.85bn...