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The front page headline of Ghana’s Business and Financial Times for January 17, 2020 reads: “National Well-being wins over foreign interests as the gov’t ditches GMOs.” The article quotes a dramatic statement from Ghana’s Agriculture Minister Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie, rejecting the need for GMO seeds in Ghana. “I’m a scientist,” said Minister Afriyie. “I believe in […]
by Peter Gubbels, Director of Action Learning and Advocacy, West Africa When meeting with an assembly of rural villagers in the Kaffrine region of Senegal 3 years ago, I inquired about the main problems they faced in their agriculture. One older woman, attired in a colorful West Africa cloth, but with a weathered face and […]
Groundswell works side-by-side with carefully selected local partner organizations to tap into and spread the rich store of home-grown knowledge, ensuring that the best solutions to hunger, poverty and environmental degradation are rooted in the local context. While on tour visiting our @CIKODGH1 partners in Upper West, Ghana, Steve Brescia narrates/films a rural farmer display […]
We’re excited for you to listen to what’s been developing in West Africa regarding agroecology, women’s empowerment, and sustainable food systems. [Remember to select closed captions and language translation in your youtube player settings.] Tsuamba Bourgou Regional Coordinator for West Africa: Tsuamba brings decades of experience supporting community-led development in his native Burkina Faso and […]
Friends, Groundswell is working with partners in West Africa and allies across the continent to create ground up agroecological alternatives and shift government support to scale them. Please take a look at this video from our allies at ACB which highlights the work of the agroecology movement in Ghana that we are supporting. Please feel […]
Farmer-based Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Thursday marched to create awareness about the need to promote agroecology to tackle climate change. The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) and Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) were joined by other farmer-based NGOs believe that with the right agricultural practices, such as agroecology – not […]
Here is an excellent 20-minute interview by our CIKOD partner, Bern Guri, on the Ghanaian TV program Joy News, which seeks to provide the public with an ‘agroecology 101’ overview, in the context of Africa Climate Week 2019. The Interview is held on an agroecological family farm. A quote from Bern is: “I think we, […]
We’d love for our supporters to see this article below from Ghana. CIKOD, with the support of Groundswell and others, has been strengthening and spreading agroecological alternatives as well as working with a national Agroecology Movement to support laws that strengthen local seed systems and prohibit GMOs. Ghana does not need GMO to ensure […]
Global support for agroecology is growing. The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) conference in Rome in April 2018, the spread of community-led agroecological alternatives, and increasing media coverage are signs of that growth. We’re proud to have been a part of this conversation for the last decade and couldn’t be more excited to see […]
At its core, Thanksgiving is a time of celebration, family, shared memories, and did we mention, food? It is celebrated all over the world by many cultures as a time of gratitude for the seasonal harvest. As a special thank you to our supporters and allies, we are happy to share two recipes from our […]
