In many public elementary schools in Benin and Ghana, improving the quality of meals served in school canteens remains a significant challenge. Limited access to fresh and nutritious produce hampers efforts to provide balanced diets for children, while opportunities for hands-on, practical education in agriculture and sustainability are often underutilized. Moreover, there is a pressing […]
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Empowering Rural Communities: Training on Soy Value Addition in Tamale
The HealthyFoodAfrica project organized a hands-on training in Northern Ghana to empower rural communities to turn soybeans into nutritious, marketable products. By building practical skills and supporting local entrepreneurship, the aim is to promote food security, better nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods. The Accra Food System Lab (FSL Accra), operated by CSIR, successfully organized a hands-on […]
Read moreEnhancing Community Nutrition: Insights from the Tamale Nutrition Education Session
Recent Nutrition Education Sessions in Tamale brought together various stakeholders, including school children, school feeding caterers, and community members from Johnshegu. The event featured comprehensive training on good hygiene and sanitation practices in cooking, aiming to enhance the nutritional well-being of the community. Through these educational efforts, participants gained valuable insights and skills to improve […]
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Encouraging positive development and empowerment in communities in Northern Ghana
In Pagaza Community, Northern Ghana, a youth ambassador takes center stage in the school garden—an essential source of veggies for the school kitchen, aimed at enhancing nutrition for local children. Simultaneously, in Gbabshie community, Tamale, a dedicated Field Officer collaborates with a VSLA group during a pivotal meeting, working towards transformative savings to bolster economic […]
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Creating change through nutrition and education initiatives in Northern Ghana
Author: Victor Yakubu In the Datoyili community in northern Ghana, schoolchildren and their teachers are working together to harvest lettuce – not just for lunch, but to improve everyone’s health. Meanwhile, head teachers and youth ambassadors are getting a refresher on how to make the school garden and nutrition education even better. A quarterly meeting […]
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Food System Lab Tamale: Nutrition awareness education
Production of high-quality biofertilizers
The production of high-quality rhizobia inoculants (biofertilizers) for field application is crucial to enhance biomass production and yields of grain-legumes and also to improve soil health, resilience, and sustainable food production systems. Grain-legumes production or intercropped with non-legumes with the application of rhizobia inoculants are being conducted by the food systems labs at Bahir […]
Read morePromoting vegetables consumption in School Feeding Program
The HealthyFoodAfrica project’s Food System Lab in Tamale aims to promote the consumption of vegetables in school feeding. This was done with the establishment of school vegetable gardens with both indigenous and exotic vegetables to be used in feeding school children in selected basic schools within Tamale Rural communities.
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FSL Tamale trains Youth Ambassadors to raise awareness for improved child nutrition and innovative food products
The activities of the Tamale FSL include establishing school gardens in 10 public schools, planting fruit trees in 10 urban communities, training 20 Youth Ambassadors who will reach out to youth in youth clubs and the schools introducing new recipes from soya processing and training materials. Authors: Victor Yakubu, Mohammed Adam & Bintu Bukari The […]
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Tackling children food insecurity in Tamale
The main goal of Tamale Food System Lab is to raise awareness about food and nutrition security for innovative food products and for improved child nutrition. This is because food and nutrition insecurity among children remain common phenomena in the HealthyFoodAfrica project communities.
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