Tag: Solidaridad
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Solidaridad launches reclaim sustainability programme in Ghana
Solidaridad, an international civil society organization, has launched its RECLAIM Sustainability! programme at a brief ceremony in Accra. The five-year programme, which is implemented by Solidaridad and TrustAfrica with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seeks to contribute to sustainable and inclusive cocoa, oil palm and gold supply chains, in which producers receive…
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Solidaridad empowers farmers to improve productivity
At Kofiase, a community in the Mampong municipality of the Ashanti Region of Ghana, members of a Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA), are on their way to getting a bumper harvest due to an investment in improved oil palm seedlings. For years, the over 4,000 residents of the community who are predominantly farmers, with…
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Solidaridad supports OPDAG towards establishment of Ghana’s Tree Crop Development Authority
Private sector actors in the oil palm value chain, when given the right knowledge and needed financial support, are able to influence policies that advance the development of the commodity in Ghana. Over the few years, the oil palm sub-sector has grappled with the lack of a national standard for the production of palm oil…