Project profile — Food Security and Environment Facility

• Ghana (100.00%)

• Agricultural development:
Agricultural development (31120) (45.00%)
Food crop production (31161) (35.00%)
Agricultural services (31191) (10.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (10.00%)
• Emergency Response: Emergency food aid (72040) (0.00%)

• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Climate change mitigation (significant objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Climate Change Adaptation (significant objective)

This project supports Ghana's efforts to achieve food security through environmentally sound agricultural initiatives in the country's three northern (and poorest) regions. It provides funding for local initiatives developed by Ghanaian non-governmental organizations and the private sector in collaboration with Canadian and international organizations. This project is expected to: 1) increase the use of innovative, environmentally sound agricultural technologies and practices in target communities; 2) enhance the ability of Ghanaian organizations to support food security and sustainable agriculture in Ghana's three northern regions; and 3) foster the capacity of local organizations to promote equality between women and men.

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Results achieved as of the end of the project (November 2016 ) include: (1) food and nutritional security of approximately 350,240 people improved through increased agriculture production and improved consumption of nutritious foods; (2) the yearly “hunger period” (during which daily meals are reduced due to food and income scarcity) was shortened from an average of 5 months at the beginning of the project to 1.5 months; (3) increase in the number of daily meals taken by beneficiaries from 1.5 to 2.5 on average; (4) 53,309 smallholder farmers (31,724 women) are using innovative technologies introduced by the project to improve tree planting, livestock breeding, soybean and maize production, and dry season vegetable production; and (5) average annual yields of farmers participating in the project increased since the beginning of the project: maize yields from 350kg to 1,250kg per acre; soybeans production from 330kg to 650kg; cowpeas, from 50kg to 300kg; These have contributed to improved food security in communities and districts in the three northern regions of Ghana, and to strengthen the capacity of Ghanaian organizations to support both women and men in practicing sustainable agriculture.

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