{"id":20379,"date":"2020-04-03T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/nu\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:31:55","slug":"covid-19-agribusiness-chamber-calls-for-measures-to-improve-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/covid-19-agribusiness-chamber-calls-for-measures-to-improve-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid 19: Agribusiness Chamber calls for measures to improve food security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: B&amp;FT Online | 23 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) has called on government \u2013 as part of measures to deal with effects of the coronavirus outbreak \u2013 to scale-up its efforts in improving the nation\u2019s level of food security.<\/p>\n<p>In a communiqu\u00e9 signed by the CEO of CAG, Farmer Anthony S.K. Morrison, the chamber is urging government to as a matter of urgency set up the Ghana Agriculture Emergency and Disaster Fund (GAE-DF) to support farmers and other players in the agriculture supply chain, as well as provide some stimulus packages and other support systems to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agribusiness industry provides critical opportunity for rural poverty reduction and the development of low-income communities in Ghana. Food security is therefore highly critical, and hence its recognition within the MDGs and SDGs as a strong and critically achievable goal for the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this reason, CAG is calling on government to profile major food production zones in the country and prioritise resources while embarking on mopping-up other essentials in developing and commercialising vegetables and underutilised crops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood security crops such as rice, maize, soybean, sorghum, yam, potato, cowpea, cassava, millet and groundnuts should be prioritised for commercial development. The poultry, livestock and aquaculture value chains should be included in the stimulus package,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: B&amp;FT Online | 23 March 2020 The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) has called on government \u2013 as part of measures to deal with effects of the coronavirus outbreak \u2013 to scale-up its efforts in improving the nation\u2019s level of food security. In a communiqu\u00e9 signed by the CEO of CAG, Farmer Anthony S.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19-public-response"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}