USAID has established a platform for public-private dialogue to facilitate the formulation of implementation strategies for agricultural policies and to encourage bottom-up policy formation.
The project is designed to increase access to agriculture services while tying together specific policy efforts to strengthen local economic governance through more vibrant, competitive, and resilient markets.
The Ghana Market Systems and Resilience Initiative, MSR, is a five-year USAID-funded project that works in 17 districts across the Northern, North East, Upper West, and Upper East regions to address the major issues of fragmented and disconnected markets, poor participation of women, youth, and marginalized populations.
through its Feed the Future Ghana Market Systems and Resilience Initiative, USAID is to improve Ghana’s agriculture sector through knowledge and local governance.
The project is designed to increase the accessibility of agriculture services and connect specific policy measures to enhance local economic governance by fostering competitive, robust, and resilient markets.
The two-day event aims to improve the rural entrepreneurial ecosystem to enable greater market participation, particularly for women and youth.
It focused on strengthening commercial relationships between market actors, which include smallholder farmers, producers, processors, buyers, input suppliers, and businesses.
team head for the Feed the Nation MSR Activity, Samson Konlan, discussed the important of the project including project focus and access to inputs.
Upper West Regional Crops Officer at the Department of Agriculture, Vuozie Frederick Domah, highlighted some of the difficulties in the agricultural sector including access to inputs.
An entrepreneur and participant of the dialogue series, Linat Osman, welcomed the initiative, which he said would help build trust among stakeholders and to start conversation on important rules and regulations that support the performance of the agriculture industry.
By Peter Quao Adattor
