Ghana Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement

Ghana Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement 

The Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement  is a four-year project designed to improve the competitiveness of key agricultural commodity value chains and to reduce the number of people living on less than US$1.25/day in target regions of the country.  The project is focused on northern Ghana to accelerate impact on three target value chains (rice, maize, and soya).  USAID collaborates closely with Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in planning and implementing Ghana’s Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan (METASIP).  The  Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement works closely with medium and large-scale agro-processors, smallholder farmers and farmer-based organizations, banks, and input suppliers in developing the targeted value chains.  The project builds the capacity of smallholder farmers to increase their efficiency with improved production practices, high yield seeds, other inputs, and basic mechanization.  The strategy is to link aggregators and processors to producers trained to supply produce based on specific market requirements.

The project works across four regions in northern Ghana:  Northern, Upper East, Upper West and the upper parts of Brong Ahafo.  The program assists smallholder farmers, nucleus farmers, aggregators (including women aggregators), and rural financial institutions. The program also assists the Ghana Grains Council.

Implementing Partners:

U.S.:       ACDI/VOCA, TechnoServe, and Winrock International.

               Ghana:   Associates of Church Development Projects (ACDEP), and PAB Consult.