UN agency where Hackman Owusu-Agyemang served in senior roles across Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.
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… Key international agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and several academic studies point to the fact that artisanal fishers’ knowledge offers valuable data on fishing efforts and behaviour to enhance fisheries management. …
Ghana’s fishers hold the knowledge, why are they not shaping policy?International Youth Day highlights young Africans' shared aspirations for decent work and sustainable futures amid high unemployment. The continent's youngest-in-the-world population—more than 60 per cent under 25 in sub-Saharan Africa—faces an urgent need for job creation, with the food system being considered as a potential source of employment.
17 August 2026 · Daily Guide →
International Youth Day highlights young Africans' shared aspirations for decent work and sustainable futures amid high unemployment. The continent's youngest-in-the-world population—more than 60 per cent under 25 in sub-Saharan Africa—faces an urgent need for job creation, with the food system being considered as a potential source of employment.
17 August 2026 · Daily Guide →
Africa has the world's youngest population, with more than 60 per cent of sub-Saharan Africans under 25, but faces an urgent employment challenge to absorb millions of young people entering the labour market. The food system is presented as a potential source of jobs and opportunities for youth seeking decent work and sustainable futures.
14 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Ghana has natural advantages—fertile soils and year-round production capacity—to become a leading African horticultural hub as global demand for tropical fruits and vegetables rises, yet currently exports only a fraction of potential market volumes despite producing internationally recognised crops like pineapples, mangoes and avocados.
7 August 2026 · Daily Guide →
Former Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei-Opare has called for stricter enforcement of existing anti-corruption laws rather than the passage of new ones, arguing that the country's challenge lies not in drafting laws but in implementing those already in place regardless of which government is in power.
21 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, born in Koforidua in 1941, is an APSU alumnus whose career as a diplomat, agricultural economist, parliamentarian, and minister of state has been marked by commitment to service and nation-building. He studied agriculture at KNUST and earned postgraduate degrees in the Netherlands and London before serving in senior roles at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation across Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.
20 June 2026 · Business & Financial Times →
An opinion piece argues that SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) overlooks farm financial management as essential to food security. The author contends that farms fail not due to poor seeds or insufficient land, but because farmers cannot read profit-and-loss statements or manage cash flow across growing seasons.
17 June 2026 · Joy Online →
AAK, a global plant-based oils and fats company, has launched its AAK Academy platform in Ghana in collaboration with the Danish Embassy to strengthen innovation and technical expertise in food and personal care industries, supporting local manufacturing capacity and Ghana's shea value chain under a January 2026 Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
9 June 2026 · Joy Online →
On World Food Safety Day 2026, the Director of the Metro Public Health Department at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly warned that unsafe food can cause up to 1.52 million deaths annually worldwide and called for practical actions to protect public health and strengthen food systems in Ghana and across Africa.
8 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Dairy brand Cowbell provided 10,000 servings of complete breakfast to students from basic schools in Kumasi to mark the 2026 World Milk Day under the theme "role of women in dairy and nourishment." The initiative is part of Cowbell's ongoing nutrition improvement efforts in communities since 2020.
5 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Dwindling fish stocks in Ghana's Volta Region have left fishing-dependent families, particularly women fishmongers, struggling to survive as catches decline due to climate change and overfishing. Small pelagic species stocks have fallen to less than 10 per cent of early 1990s levels over the past three decades, driving prices sharply higher and cutting off household incomes.
7 May 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →
Artisanal fishers in Ghana possess deep knowledge of ocean conditions, fish behaviour, and weather patterns gained through long experience, yet this expertise is largely ignored in formal fisheries management policies. Ghana's small pelagic fish stocks, particularly sardinella, have declined sharply—falling from over 120,000 metric tons in the late 1990s to less than 20,000 metric tons in recent years—while the industry faces mounting ecological and economic pressure.
4 May 2026 · Joy Online →