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Support to the Development of Ghana’s Agricultural Investment Plan, 2018-2021 - TCP/GHA/3605

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 8

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The agricultural sector is one of the key drivers of the economy of Ghana. It employs 44 percent of the country’s workforce and is therefore critical to supporting the livelihoods of a very high number of people. The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) is mandated to develop policies and programmes to transform the agricultural sector. In 2010, the MoFA and its stakeholders developed the Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan (METASIP 1), which covered the period from 2011 to 2015. This was succeeded by a subsequent plan, simply named METASIP 2, from 2015 to 2018. In retrospect, the two plans were in line with the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), with a financial aim of increasing or sustaining the annual sector growth in agriculture by at least 6 percent of GDP annually. This, in turn, was geared towards the CAADP commitment of halving poverty by the end of the period to 2025, through inclusive agricultural growth and transformation. The Planalso had a development aim, namely to modernize agriculture and significantly reduce risks to production through mechanization, agricultural inputs, extension services, an increase in irrigated areas, an increase inaccess to credit and a reduction in post-harvest losses.

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