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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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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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 moreThe 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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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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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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