Ghana: Climate change biting hard in Western North Region, as farm yields are fast declining

The newly created Western North Region is one of the food baskets of Ghana, as it is noted for producing food crops such as maize, yam, cassava, plantain, rice and cocoyam among others. But, climate change is having a negative effect on the farming activities in the region with farm yields declining at a faster pace and post-harvest loses becoming a norm. This was disclosed by a 45-year-old disable farmer, Kwaku Afful, who was recently voted as the chairman of the Multi stakeholder platform for (Research for Development and Innovation Agriculture and Learning (ReDIAL) project in Sefwi Wiawso The main drivers of the climate in the region are illegal logging, bush burning, bad farming practices and urbanization. Mr Afful said “climate change will kill us if government, NGO’s and philanthropists don’t come to our aid”. He was however positive that the ReDIAL project, a European Union (EU) funded project whose overall goal is to improve food security and nutrition and ...