Ghana commits to improving food systems

Published Jul 29, 2021

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Ghana's Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Yaw Frimpong Addo, has outlined the nation's strategy to enhance food systems to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite being one of the most food-secure countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana struggles with malnutrition and declining soil fertility. The plan includes reducing food loss, improving resilient production, and empowering smallholder farmers, women, and youth. Other strategies include enhancing nutrition in school feeding programs, promoting healthy eating, and strengthening policymaking and private sector engagement. The country also aims to increase the production of climate-resilient crops, reduce post-harvest losses, and increase access to affordable feed for the poultry and aquaculture industries by 2030.

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Ghana has the conviction that improved food systems will contribute to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Mr. Yaw Frimpong Addo, the Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, said on Wednesday. The Government was, therefore, determined to embrace global actions and ensure that the outcomes of the UN Pre-Summit on food systems, which ended in Rome on Wednesday, were integrated into development policies and plans, and effectively implemented, he said. Making a contributing at the three-day Summit, Mr. Addo, who joined virtually, said Ghana was very much mindful of the global and continental frameworks, which it had integrated into the Development Framework at country level. “Guaranteeing food security and improved nutrition and overall optimum health for Ghanaians is a step towards achieving the SDGs, Africa Union Commission Agenda 2063 and the Malabo declarations” he said. Commenting on the current food systems in the country, Mr. Addo said even ...

Source: Ghanaweb