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Ghana: Consider urban agriculture in national policy development
She called for the institutionalisation and integration of urban agriculture into the country’s economic development agenda.
By Joyce Danso
Ghana News Agency
Accra, March 29
Excerpt:
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana on Wednesday implored government to include Urban Agriculture (gardening) in its policy of “Planting for Food and Jobs” to curb unemployment among the youth.
Mrs Victoria Adongo, Programmes Coordinator of the Association also appealed to government to encourage backyard gardening which boosted food production when the “Operation feed yourself” was introduced some year ago.
Mrs Adongo who was speaking at a National Forum on Local Seeds, Nutrition and Urban gardening held in Accra noted that 200 million people were involved in urban agriculture worldwide and that had contributed to the feeding of 800 million urban dwellers.
According to her, Urban Agriculture had been branded as compliment in the urban food supply with 40 per cent of the population in Africa engaged in the practice.
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Source: http://www.cityfarmer.info/2017/04/07/ghana-consider-urban-agriculture-in-national-policy-development/
