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2023
Radio Station: URA Radio
Producer Organization: Tele-Bere and GhaFFaP
Production Language: English
Production Year: 2023
Programme 1: GhaFFaP Promotion of Business Incubation Services to Smallholder Forest and Farm Producers
Forest business incubation is a support process that accelerates the successful development of sustainable businesses in forest landscapes. There is much to develop. The aggregate gross annual value from smallholder producers within forest landscapes may be as much as US$1.3 trillion. GhaFFaP over the years has been implementing processes towards providing tailor-made business incubation and access to finance services to its member forest and farm producer organisations. GhaFFaP has various business development units at the grassroots level and Business Incubation Teams and the Landscape and National Level providing Business Incubation assistance to smallholder forest and farm producers
Guiding Questions:
- What is business incubation?
- What business Incubation Services is GhaFFaP Providing its member FFPOs?
- How is access to Finance Relevant to the Business Incubation services being provided?
- How have business incubation services been of relevance to Pos?
- Is there any other thing you wish to say?
Radio Station: URA Radio
Producer Organization: Tele-Bere and GhaFFaP
Production Language: English
Production Year: 2023
Programme 2: Farmer Assisted Natural Regeneration and Environmental Conservation in Northern Ghana
Restoring degraded landscapes is critical for achieving global environmental and development goals, and agroforestry is increasingly promoted as a nature-based solution to land degradation. Farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) is an agroforestry-based approach to restoring degraded agricultural land and it has been widely implemented in African drylands. FMNR has been determined to be a major contributor to restoring landscapes, especially across the northern savanna regions of Ghana where there is a long dry season of up to 9 months. Tele-Bere is using FMNR as a key Methodology working closely with smallholder forest and farm producers in Northern Ghana to restore landscapes
Guiding Questions:
- What is Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration?
- How is FMNR contributing to restoration in Northern Ghana?
- What communities are practicing FMNR?
- How can communities contribute to FMNR efforts in Northern Ghana?
- Is there any other thing you want to say?
2022
Radio Station: URA Radio
Producer Organization: Tele-Bere and GhaFFaP
Production Language: English
Production Year: 2022
Programme Title: The Role of the Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers in Achieving Climate-Resilient Landscapes in Ghana
The Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers is a national federation of smallholder Forest and Farm Producer Organisations with members from across three ecological zones, including the savanna, transition, and forest ecological zones. GhaFFaP currently has a membership of 17 Forest and Farm Producer Organisations with a current membership of 1.5 million smallholders. GhaFFaP working with its member Forest and Farm Organisations towards ensuring climate-resilient landscapes in Ghana.
This discussion will focus on the key activities GhaFFaP is performing, working with various stakeholders in Ghana towards the delivery of climate-resilient landscapes in Ghana.
2021
Radio Station: Royals Radio, Gurune Radio, Radio Ada
Producer Organization: GhaFFaP
Production Language: English
Production Year: 2021
Programme Title: Efforts of women family farmers in Ghana
The programme focuses on the efforts of women family farmers in Ghana to improve their livelihoods. It features interviews with the assistant Representative of FAO in Ghana, Mr Benjamin Adjei, focusing on the role of women in family farming. The magazine program zoomed in on women farmers in Forikrom in the Bono East Region who are being assisted by the Abrono Organic Farmers Association (ABOFA) and also with women farmers in Zuarungu-Moshie in the Upper East Region who are members of the Tele-bere Savings and Loan Association. The women testify not only to how the improved practices have led to greater and more sustainable yields but also to how these have empowered them to the practical benefit of their households and the education of their children. The Assistant Representative for FAO in Ghana concluded with a look at how the family and the farm is linked, how family farming is a catalyst and how it impacts the economic development of environmental, reproductive and socio-cultural functions.
The invited guests of the programme were Nana Kwao Adams, the Executive Director of ABOFA; Women farmers in Forikrom in the Bono East Region; Women farmers in Zuarungu-Moshie in the Upper East Region; and Assistant Representative for Programmes of FAO in Ghana, Mr Benjamin Adjei.