Ghana is making significant progress toward the sustainable management of cocoa forest landscapes, boosting livelihoods and addressing the impacts of climate change
Ghana has received an advance payment of US$1.3million out of a US$50million agreement with the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for results-based payments for reducing emissions from...
Federated Commodities, in partnership with Beyond the Beans Foundation, has rolled out sustainable programmes which seek to encourage cocoa farmers in parts of the Eastern Region to produce more - despite the coronavirus pandemic inclining prices on the international market to fall.
In February this year, the cocoa price per...
The Ghana Water Company limited (GWCL), has announced that there will be an interruption of water supply to the eastern part of the Greater Accra Region from Monday the 14th to Saturday the 20th of September, 2020.
According to the GWCL, engineers are working to replace close to two kilometers...
The role that many sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play in national economic policy has changed dramatically as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, giving rise to questions about their future.
The IMF predicts that the global economy will contract by 4.9% this year, down from growth of 2.9% in 2019, while...
Food and beverage companies have been urged to incorporate safety and hazard measures so as to ensure the health and safety of the final consumer.
Speaking at a two-day training in Accra on ‘Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)', Johnson Opuku-Boateng, Director, Business Development Services at the Association of...
In Africa, especially in the Savannah region where the weather is dry and severely hit by climate change conditions, making it difficult for many trees to survive or thrive - most especially during the dry season, the Baobab Tree survives, thrives and also serves as a source of life...
… a panacea for teacher commitment and performance
In recent years, teacher motivation in Africa and South Asia are the most debatable topics (Tao, 2011; Rusu & Ayasilcai, 2013; Huber, Fruth, avila-John & Ramirez, 2016). However, previous study has indicated “that high percentage of teachers working in government schools...
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has maintained that the Mahama administration did not directly borrow from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to finance the 2016 Budget.
Mr. Terkper said the government in 2016 couldn’t have gone for BoG financing to support its expenditure since there was an IMF conditionality that...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given assent to the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana Act.
The President signed the Act into law on Thursday August 13, 2020, approximately two months after parliament passed it .The Act has suffered nearly two decades of delays.
It will be recalled that the Parliament...