| ID: | 69289 |
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| Country: | Ghana |
| Title: | Ghana, The Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP), November 2015 |
| Description: |
Investing in rural northern Ghana to create viable economic opportunities – particularly for women – while improving market linkages with the south and neighbouring countries. The Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP) is spurring agricultural and rural growth and poverty reduction with innovative approaches like District Value Chain Committees (DVCCs). Ajara Ibrahim Taimako is a farmer, processor and marketer of the Kanvilli Women’s Shea Centre. “Thanks to NRGP, I benefited from several marketing trainings and study tours,” Ajara says, one of which resulted in a memorandum of understanding with a major client, the Savannah Fruits Company which has a public-private partnership with an RGP for the development and processing of shea. The centre also sells the shea butter to Sundial, a New York-based cosmetics company. “Now my income has increased,” Ajara says. “I also produce soya milk and yoghurt that I sell to hotels, restaurants and private clients. I send my last two children to university. In the next five years, I want to see myself as a big business woman.” She hopes that her children will take over the business. |
| Size: | 5.47 MB; 4272 x 2848 pixels; 362 x 241 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1130 x 754 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | David Paqui |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/ David Paqui |
| Categories: | none |
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