AICCRA Country Ghana

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Promoting crop diversification and tied ridging for adaptation among small holder farmers
(Report, 2024-12) Yeboah, Stephen; Adomako, Joseph; Amankwa-Yeboah, Patricia; Narveh, Ernestina; Frimpong-Anin, Kofi; Haleegoah, Joyce; Adablah, Richard
This report focuses on three value chains; maize, cowpea, and groundnut, and the associated technologies to address the effects of climate change manifested in unpredictable rainfall patterns, elevated air temperatures, and poor soil fertility. To address these issues, the project promoted intercropping as an alternate cropping system to promote diversification to reduce farmers’ vulnerability to climate change. The project also demonstrated tied ridging as an improved landform for soil water conservation. The deployment of the technologies using the climate-smart agriculture hubs facilitated effective coordination and implementation of activities. End users showed a high preference for tied ridging for water conservation and high yield which builds their resilience against climate risk. Participants (mainly women) developed an interest in the Sari Nut 2 (groundnut), and expressed the desire to purchase some at subsidized prices.
Radio Enhancing Innovative Technologies and Climate Information Service for Farmers in Ghana
(Report, 2024-12-31) Farm Radio, International,
This report provides an overview of activities completed in the second phase of the Radio Enhancing Innovative Technologies and Climate Information Service for Farmers in Ghana project. Building on the foundation laid in the first phase, the project continues to enhance farmers' access to climate-smart agricultural technologies and climate information services. Targeted to the Upper West, Upper East, Northern, Bono East, and Central regions, this phase re-engaged eight partner radio stations from the previous phase across the targeted regions. Activities carried out within July and October include stakeholder engagement, broadcaster training and content orientation, and program broadcast. A core technical workshop resulted in the development of a 16-week radio program tailored to meet the target audience's local needs, covering topics from stress-tolerant crop varieties to integrated pest management strategies. Each station delivered broadcasts in the local language, promoting gender-responsive agronomic practices, providing daily and weekly weather updates, and enhancing farmers’ knowledge of sustainable farming practices. All radio teams started broadcasting after training and content orientation. All stations with audio files submitted have aired a total of 64 live programs. The impact of these activities has been strengthened by engaging the Ghana Meteorological Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and other local partners, ensuring the relevance and practicality of the content. Regular program monitoring, field visits, and feedback loops are in place to refine the broadcasts further.
Deepening Access, Impact, and Adoption of Bundled Digital Farmer Services in Ghana.
(Report, 2024-11-31) Allavi, Elorm; Marcus, Larry; Nunoo, Hannah
Syecomp’s participation in AICCRA Ghana Cluster activities in 2024 enhanced our resolve to support more farmers beyond our existing farmer client group in Ghana, Togo, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. The project's intervention for 2024 helped over 100,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana to efficiently access agro-advisory services through our platform. Our involvement strengthened our business case to continue building robust, innovative features to tackle emerging challenges in African agriculture. Syecomp’s participation in the AICCRA Ghana Cluster has boosted our engagements with Departments of Agriculture in AICCRA Ghana focus regions, local organisations, and stakeholders to amplify our impact in rural farming communities in Ghana
Successful scaling of climate solutions requires qualified human skills and creative partnerships.
(Report, 2024-12-20) Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain; Dalaa, Mustapha; Obeng, Faustina
This report synthesises climate solutions promoted by the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Ghana. The solutions are prioritised and co-designed following a rigorous decision making process. The report highlights the building blocks of an inclusive and sustainable scaling model. It underlines how boosted human capabilities, effective partnerships and improved synergies can generate tangible outcomes for scaling climate information services and climate smart agriculture technologies towards improved food systems resilience.
Building women’s climate resilience through smart groundnut socio-technical innovation bundle in Ghana
(Brief, 2024-11) Obeng Adomaa, Faustina
Interventions aimed at building climate resilient communities require a mixture of instruments that speak to the peculiar realities of women, youth, and other vulnerable groups. Building of learnings from 2021-2023, this InfoNote presents a social technical innovation bundle for smart groundnut production that brings together technical solutions and institutional arrangements to address the primary challenges that women groundnut farmers in northern Ghana face. The Info Note also presents pathway for scaling this smart groundnut socio-technical innovation bundle.
Co-Designing and Implementing end-to-end Solutions to Meet Farmer's Complex Needs: a science-business approach to scaling climate-smart solutions
(Report, 2024-12) Kyere, Reginald
Private sector businesses provides unique platforms to reach farmers with climate smart solutions. In Ghana, CGIAR partners and national partners are collaborating with Small and Medium Scale Enterprise to co-design and scale bundled products and services that integrate Climate Information Services, Climate Smart Agriculture technologies, information access, market access, credit finance, insurance and digital tools.
Bundling Climate Smart Solutions with and for women smallholder farmers in Ghana
(Brief, 2024-11) Obeng Adomaa, Faustina
Climate smart interventions need to address he peculiar needs of men, women and other vulnerable groups in order to build climate resilience of communities. Building of learnings from 2021-2023, this Info Note presents bundled climate solutions developed with and for women farmers to address the challenges of groudnut, cowpea and sweet potato production in Ghana. These bundled solutions brings together technical solutions and institutional arrangements to address the primary challenges that women groundnut, cowpea and sweet potato farmers face. The Info Note also presents pathway for scaling these bundled solutions
Climate solutions dissemination for adaptive decision making – building climate resilience of smallholder farmers in Ghana
(Infographic, 2024-11) Obeng Adomaa, Faustina; Kyere, Reginald Ofori; Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain
Developing and deploying climate solutions is critical to building resilience of Ghana's crop production system. This infographic presents AICCRA Ghana's framework for developing and deploying climate smart innovations to smallholder crop farmers in Ghana. The infographic details the specific innovations developed for specific crops and the institutional arrangement for scaling these innovations to farmers. The direct and indirect beneficiaries who accessed these innovations are presented as well as the outcomes of the use of these innovations on building farmers climate resilience.
Enhancing farmers access to climate information service and climate smart agriculture innovations in Ghana through a multi-channel scaling approach
(Report, 2024-11) Obeng Adomaa, Faustina; Mahama, Obed Kwaku; Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan; Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain
Improving farmers' access to enhanced CIS and validated CSA innovations has been at the core of the Accelerating Impacts of CGAIR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project. This report presents AICCRA Ghana's multi-channel scaling approach that builds on lessons from the first three years of implementation (2021-2023) as a route to scaling access to enhanced CIS and validated CSA to smallholder farmers in Ghana. The report presents CSA hubs as an institutional arrangement for fostering integration and complementarities among multiple channels for scaling site-specific bundled climate solutions to men, women and youth farmers. The report highlights the successes of this integrative scaling approach in reaching over 220,000 new beneficiaries with climate solutions.
From access to use of climate smart innovations; pathways that enhance uptake of climate smart innovations among smallholder farmers in Ghana
(Report, 2024-11) Obeng Adomaa, Faustina; Mahama, Obed Kwaku; Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan; Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain
Enhancing farmers access to and use of climate smart innovations is fundamental to building resilience into Ghana’s crop production that is largely rain-fed. This report present AICCRA Ghana's approach to developing and deploying innovation, information, financial and institutional instruments to enhance access and use of CIS-CSA innovations among smallholder farmers in Ghana. The report highlights how these instruments were integrated into the existing service delivery ecosystem as a pathway to enable farmers access and use AICCRA CIS and CSA innovation to build their climate resilience.
Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension – Ghana Reference Guide
(Training Material, 2024-12-31) Trzaska, Sylwia; Hansen, James; Dinku, Tufa; Grossi, Amanda; Huyer, Sophia; Moore, Maya
Improvements in the weather and climate information available in Ghana provide new opportunities for agricultural extension personnel to help farmers better manage the risks that they face, and to adapt recommended technology packages to local climatic conditions. This reference guide provides the reference materials for the 2-week Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension course aims to equip agricultural extension workers in Ghana to access, understand and incorporate climate information into their professional work. It is designed to provide foundational knowledge on climate and agricultural decision making; and practical tools to analyze climate-related risks, use appropriate weather and climate information to support agricultural decisions, communicate complex climate information effectively with farmers, and integrate climate services into agricultural extension activities.
Training on Climate Data Tool (CDT) for Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet)
(Report, 2024-12-20) Faniriantsoa, Rija
In August 2024, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) conducted a training workshop on the Climate Data Tool (CDT) for the staff of Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet).
Making Climate Smart Agriculture Innovations One Health Sensitive
(Brief, 2022-12) Osae, Michael; Dzepe, Daniel; Clottey, Victor; Yeboah, Stephen; Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan; Tahidu, Osman; Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain; Agboton, Cyriaque; Tamo, Manuele
That is, the CSA practices ensure a healthy ecosystem (humans, animals and plants, and their shared environment). This policy brief highlights CSA and One Health concepts and outlines how CSA innovations and for that matter, any innovation can be made One Health sensitive. Ensuring CSAs are One Health sensitive brings great benefit to our agri-food systems, livelihoods as well as to the ecosystem.
Promoting the National Framework for Climate Services in Ghana Through Collaborative Effort for Sustainable Agriculture
(Brief, 2022-12) Martey, Francisca; Clottey, Victor; Yeboah, Stephen; Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain; Nikoi, Gordon; Wilson, Michael; Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan; Damba, Osman Tahidu
This policy briefing captures recommendations for the development and implementation of the National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) in Ghana
Situational Analysis and Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy: Towards the making of gender and youth smart innovations in Ghana
(Report, 2022-12) Obeng, Faustina; Damba, Osman Tahidu; Yeboah, Stephen; Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan; Huyer, Sophia; Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain
The working paper presents AICCRA Ghana's situational analysis on differential access to and use of agriculture resources in intervention communities and highlight our strategy to mainstream gender and social inclusion into AICCRA's innovations. Through a traingulation of data from literature review, needs assessments, and baseline study, the document discusses gender and generational differences in access to and use of land, labour, capital, extensions services and participation in farmer based organisations. The document highlights how the identified gender and generational gaps are rooted in community norms and customs that define who has access to what resources under what conditions. Resulting from the situational analysis, the document presents a strategy to mainstream gender and social inclusion that builds on two main pillars: 1.Capacitation of AICCRA partners/collaborators, and farmers in communities, households and organised groups to improve access and use of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and Climate Information Services (CIS) 2. Transformational dialogues with partners/collaborators and communities to reflect and change norms that entrech gender and generational inequalties.
Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA): Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) for Ghana cluster activities
(Report, 2022-01) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
This Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) has been prepared to identify the key stakeholders of the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) Ghana Cluster, define information disclosure and stakeholder engagement measures and design a grievance mechanism (GM). The SEP outlines how, when, and ways in which the project team will inform, communicate and consult with stakeholders including vulnerable groups and a mechanism by which people can raise concerns, provide feedback, or make complaints about the project and any activities related to the Project. The SEP has been prepared according to Environmental and Social Standard 10 (ESS 10) on Stakeholder Engagement and Information Disclosure of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF)and the overall ACCRA SEP prepared by CIAT. It will cover the whole life of the Project. This SEP is a living document and might be updated anytime during project implementation to capture issues that could arise due to the changing circumstances and uncertainties.
Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA): Labor Management Procedure (LMP) for Ghana cluster activities
(Report, 2022-03) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
This Labor Management Procedures (LMP) has been developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to guide mitigation and response to project risks relating to working conditions and occupational health and safety (OHS) of workers and community members during the implementation of the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project activities in Ghana. The purpose of this LMP is to facilitate the identification of different types of workers that are likely to be involved in the project and set out the ways in which those workers will be managed in accordance with the requirements of Ghana labor laws and the objectives of the World Bank Environmental and Social Standard 2: Labor and Working Conditions (ESS2). It will cover the whole life of the Project. This LMP is a living document and would be updated as and when the scope of work for AICCRA Ghana and its related labor requirements change.
Training workshops on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA)
(Report, 2021-11-02) Dembélé, Catherine; Bazie, Paulin
Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a new initiative that seeks to enhance access to climate information services and validated climate-smart agriculture technologies in Africa. It is a 3-year project funded by the World Bank and implemented in 6 African countries including 3 countries in West Africa (Ghana, Mali, and Senegal). The Project aims to strengthen the capacity of targeted CCAFS (CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security) partners and stakeholders, and to enhance access to climate information services and validated climate-smart agriculture technologies in the eligible countries in Africa. With the support of AICCRA projects, farmers and livestock keepers would be able to better anticipate climate-related events and take preventative actions, with better access to climate advisories linked to information about effective response measures. This would help communities better safeguard their livelihoods and the environment. The project has 3 main components including (1) Knowledge Generation and Sharing, (2) Strengthening Partnerships for Delivery, and (3) Validating Climate-Smart Agriculture Innovations through Piloting. In Ghana, AICCRA is implemented by various CGIAR institutions and NGOs led by the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Benin. As climate information is key in the process, in collaboration with IITA, the World Agroforestry (ICRAF/SAHEL) has organized a training of trainers in Kumasi for field agents involved in the implementation of the project in Ghana to understanding and implementing the Participatory and Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) approach. Developed by the University of Reading in the framework of CCAFS project, PICSA has been taken to scale and adapted widely in West Africa by ICRAF/SAHEL since 2015. PICSA is an approach that has been developed for extension agents to enable them to improve the support provided to farmers considering climate information relevant to the locality of the farmers. PICSA goes beyond climate prediction, because in the approach farmers begin long before the start of the season exploring several options based on historical climate information for their locality. This involves using participatory planning tools to help farmers making adequate decisions based on precise climate and meteorological information specific to their localities and options for agriculture, livestock/ fishery production and other locally relevant livelihood options. The training had taken place from June 14 to 18.

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