News: Ghana

In Ghana’s Northern Savannah, where climate vulnerability is felt in the soil itself, farmers are finding new strategies to adapt, resist, and thrive. On August 23, 2025, FIDEP Foundation, as part of the EU-funded CIRAWA Project, convened smallholders in Central Gonja for a training of trainers on co-creating agroecological pathways towards climate resilience.

Across Africa, women remain at the centre of agriculture. They till the land, preserve seed systems, and safeguard food security, yet their voices are often marginalised in decision-making. In the Central Gonja District in Ghana, the CIRAWA Project has begun to shift this imbalance. On 22 July 2025, women farmers in Kusawgu gathered for a participatory forum that placed their leadership at the centre of the transition toward agroecology.

Climate change is not only a threat to the food security of millions of people in West Africa but also affects the whole range of agricultural activities and thus the source of income of millions of people in the region.

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Field technicians and farmers from Ghana took part in a 4-day long training course on Agroforestry techniques and practices that started on 7 May 2024. The training took place as part of the CIRAWA Project – Agroecological Strategies for Resilient Agriculture in West Africa and followed two other events in Ghana: Waste to Wealth on 18 April and Grow Green on 19 April.