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Four ways to invest in Ghana’s young cocoa farmers to help rejuvenate the sector and address youth unemployment.   This infographic presents a summary of the findings from the Youth Forward Learning Partnership research ‘Creating opportunities for young people in Ghana’s cocoa sector‘.    June 2017 Alexandra Lowe

Cocoa production is essential to the health of Ghana’s economy, contributing 3% to its gross domestic product and supporting the livelihoods of approximately 4 million farming households (GSS, 2015). Ghana represents the gold standard for cocoa quality and is one of the world’s largest producers, yet the sector’s yields remain stubbornly low. Young people are…

By 9 a.m., the sun is already bright in Laini Saba, a village in Kibera, Africa’s largest urban slum. Moses Otieno has only been asleep a few hours, but the 24-year-old wakes up and looks for breakfast. He finds two chapatis that he buys for 50 shillings ($0.5) on the busy nearby street, full of…

The Government has identified about 8,000 basic schools that need urgent refurbishment, and would need about $200 million to renovate dilapidated basic school structures across the country.  Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister for Education, who gave the figures, in Parliament on Tuesday, said the identified structures threatened the lives of pupils, and the Government…

It’s Father’s Day on Sunday, apparently (my kids ignore it completely), so here’s Oxfam’s gender guru,Nikki vander Gaag, reflecting on an impressive bit of advocacy Sharing the housework meansbetter sex. Now that I have your attention, let me explain. This was just one of the findings in the first everState of the World’s Fathersreport, published in…