AGRA holds review meeting

The Alliance for Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA) has held a two-day review meeting in Accra to assess progress made in preparatory activities and plan toward its upcoming field project in the Northern Region.

The project, which is aimed at enhancing land access and tenure security, will also facilitate sustainable agricultural production and increased farm incomes for women and smallholder farmers in the region.

AGRA is implementing the project in Ghana through the Ghana Land Policy Action Node.

The Ghana Land Node is made up of seven institutions drawn from the public sector, research and academic institutions, as well as civil society.

The Land and Environmental Policy Officer of AGRA, Dr Evelyn Namubiru Mwaura, who addressed the meeting, said her organisation was working through intermediaries to support the Government of Ghana to implement the second phase of the Food and Agriculture Sector Development Programme (FASDEP II).

She said four areas, including the Afram Plains, the Accra Plains, the Northern and the Volta regions, with high potential productivity for specific food crops, good market access potential and a relatively high rural population density in Ghana, had been identified for the implementation of the tailor-made interventions.

To that end, she urged members of the team to deepen the advocacy agenda of the project to ensure that activities did not only benefit the localised areas where project activities would be directly implemented but also influenced national policy direction on land.