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Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world and these problems are poised to accelerate.Threats from climate change, population growth and unsustainable resource use…

Imagine that you could hear speech and sound last night but woke up this morning only  to find the whole world has gone silent. Not that people are not talking, but you suddenly lost your ability to hear. That experience came like a dream…

The seaside along the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis has become a breeding ground for babies and not fingerlings anymore. Young, energetic and beautiful girls of school-going age have shunned a better dream of getting themselves educated and…

A media report that “kenkey causes cancer” dented the national meal some years back to draw attention to the fact that aflatoxins are silent killers. The Food Research Institute (FRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research…

Kwame Amponsah 26, abandoned his job as a farm hand to join friends to engage in illegal mining popularly called Galamsey, at Wassa Akropong in the Western Region. He says he abandoned farming because it was not making life meaningful for…

On March 26, the much awaited National and Regional elections of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) were held throughout the country with all the attention and importance that it deserved. Like any other elections, by the close of the…

Guinea fowl, a common bird reared mostly in the three northern regions, have sometimes in the country’s history become controversial notably the Konkomba/Nanumba war in the Northern Region in the early 90s. In recent times, it has…

On Friday, March 22, the world’s attention would be focussed on water and every United Nations (UN) member state is expected to mark the day with an awareness creation of the need for water and its importance in the development of a given…

Ghana-UK relations received a major boost last week following the Foreign Secretary Rt. Hon. William Hague MP’s visit to Accra. It was the first such visit in 13 years. I am delighted that the Foreign Secretary was able to come to Accra,…

Introduction Petroleum is the major index that drives business, manufacturing and transportation of goods and services to serve a competitive nation’s economy and the world at large. The tradability, specificity of assets, planned demand…