An analysis of climate finance flows in Ghana shows that an annual average of USD 830 million was tracked in 2019 and 2020. This is a meagre 5-9% of its required investment — estimated between USD 9.3-15.5 billion — highlighting the pressing need to bolster climate finance to achieve Ghana’s …
Ghana is to receive some 100 mega watts of power in 2017 to help ease the power challenges confronting the country. It follows the award of a $704,815 grant by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to Ghanaian solar power developer, Home Energy Africa Limited. The grant will also …
The Ministry of Power has issued 80 licences worth 4,000 megawatts of power generation capacity to businesses that are seeking to invest in the renewable energy sector, Deputy Minister of Power John Abu Jinapor has disclosed. The ministry has also launched a tender process with accompanying guarantees to solicit an …
Think of it as Mother Nature’s roller-coaster ride: the shift between the weather patterns known as El Nino and La Nina that, at their worst, can cause havoc worldwide. El Nino -- spurred on by a warming of the equatorial Pacific -- has dried up rice crops across Southeast Asia, …
A research conducted by the Water Research Institute (WRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has established that Ghana’s water treatment systems are incapable of removing algae toxins. Briefing the Daily Graphic on the report, the Director of the institute, Dr. Joseph Addo Ampofo explained that Ghana …
Some GPHA officials using the boom equipment to isolate the oil at vantage points to be evacuated The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authourity (GPHA) is to impose a $50,000 penalty on the Mediterranean Shipping Company for polluting the Tema Port environment with heavy marine oil (HFO) spilled from its container …
Waste management remains one of the biggest challenges for Ghana. Whereas many homes in the capital, Accra do not have access to toilet facilities, those who do face the dilemma of how to dispose off the waste when their septic tanks are full. For years, human excreta from across the …
A 20 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) project developed by the Chinese firm Beijing Xiaocheng Company (a subsidiary of Beijing Fuxing Xiao-Cheng Electronic) was recently connected to the grid in Ghana, according to recent reports. The newly connected solar PV project represents the largest yet connected to the Ghanian grid, …
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has launched a plan dubbed: “Rapid Result Initiative (RRI),” to fast-track the construction of 200 household toilets within 100 days. The overall objective of the project is to improve sanitation and increase access to water supply for low income urban communities. Public Health Engineer and …
Four people are reported dead out of the nine who tested positive to the meningitis disease in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region in February. In all, the District recorded twenty-four suspected cases of meningitis; however, the Lawra District Directorate of Health say the situation has not reached …
To make a real impact on food security and food production, agricultural spending and policy need to undergo a reorientation to focus more deeply on women farmers. The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has been called upon to strategically target at least 30 percent women-participation in all agricultural-related programmes …
Ghana is losing about 15 million cubic metres of forest reserves per annum due to legal and illegal logging, bush burning, illegal mining and settlements. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the country also loses about 5 million cubic metres of forest resources annually …
Three new but independent studies have recorded breakthrough against two of the most deadly diseases in Africa- tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. Results of a new study involving over 3, 000 women in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Zambia show four available antimalarial treatments are safe to use in pregnancy, providing …
Mainstreaming climate change strategies on the basis of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) into agricultural food security policies demands multi-dimensional approaches. In sub-Saharan Africa, the demand is made more complex by the socioeconomic challenges such as poverty, unstable markets, limited opportunities for employment and livelihoods. Mainstreaming therefore has to be …
Parts of Ghana are reeling under acute water shortage as taps have stopped running and raw water sources are drying up. A combination of drought and illegal mining activities as well as unsafe environmental practices has conspired to make raw water sources unproductive for a country that seeks to achieve …
The National Food and Agric Show (FAGRO) Secretariat, has released events labelled as “action-packed” to guide its 2016 food and agriculture demonstration, aimed at repositioning Ghana’s agricultural sector to boost food security and slash poverty. Officials at the secretariat say the fully-packed activities underline the secretariat’s unflinching commitment to make …
Six people have been confirmed to have died of Pneumococcal and Meningococcal meningitis in the Ashanti region. Four of the deaths were attributed to Pneumococcal meningitis while the other two deaths resulted from Meningococcal meningitis. The deaths are among 17 suspected meningitis cases of which nine were confirmed to have …
Civil registration and vital statistics systems are increasingly recognized as drivers of human rights, health, and development programs—especially for women and children. Vital statistics systems are weak in most low-income countries, precisely where the burden of maternal and child deaths is highest and, therefore, the need for up-to-date, high-quality estimates …
Ghana’s savannah ecosystem has been subjected to a number of climatic hazards of varying severity over the past three decades. This paper presents a spatial, time-series analysis of the impacts of multiple hazards on the ecosystem and human livelihoods, using the Upper East Region of Ghana as a case study.
Brimming with shade trees and bounded by the Tuma river, the lower climes of Roger Castellon's farm in Nicaragua's mountainous Jinotega department were long ideal for growing coffee. But with temperatures on the rise, the veteran coffee farmer is shifting his lower-lying land to a crop that, although new for …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is introducing on a pilot basis a new locally made energy efficient cooking stove for use by rural dwellers across Ghana, as a means to prevent or reduce the use of firewood for cooking. The newly-introduced cooking stove, which is made from ordinary clay, cow …
