Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector (GIC)

Innovations in the agriculture and food sector have increased the incomes of small farming enterprises, boosted employment and improved the regional food supply.

COUNTRY/REC Ghana

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2015 - December 2022

PROJECT SITE Ahafo, Ashanti, Eastern, Volta

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 GIZ
2 EU
3 German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 14,474,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 14,474,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

Innovations in the agriculture and food sector have increased the incomes of small farming enterprises, boosted employment and improved the regional food supply.

Project Objectives

To increase the incomes of small farming enterprises in the rural target regions

To boost employment in the rural target regions

To improve the regional food supply in the rural target regions

Project Outputs

Increase productivity along the value cahin

Create jobs

Improve the livelihoods of rural communities

Project activities

Providing advisory services

Organising educational and training courses

Facilitating access to loans

Mechanisation within agriculture or improved seeds, fertilisers and food cooling chains

Setting up producer associations, specialised enterprises or interest groups

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Bastian Beege