Climate change is a threat to food security - Minister
Posted by GNA on 8:25 pm at 8:25 pm Ms. Anna Nyamekye, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Thursday identified climate change and environmental degradation as key challenges facing the growth and development of the agricultural sector.
She noted that rise in temperature had also caused immense damage to both aquatic and terrestrial life.
“We are getting low fish catch and lower yields these [...]
Sanitation improves at Tema Site One
Posted by GNA on 1:31 pm at 1:31 pmSite One in Tema Community One is the closest of the sites to the central business district of the metropolis.
The residents are petty traders, artisans, tradesmen and professionals and Site One is said to be the oldest built to accommodate workers engaged in the building of the other communities.
Over the years the site has grown [...]
National Campaign on Sanitation launched
Posted by GNA on 7:58 pm at 7:58 pmA national campaign for improved environmental sanitation has been launched with a call on Ghanaians to ensure a sound environmental sanitation for healthy population.
“Our inability to maintain proper environmental sanitation may pose a potential health risk to the people
Mr Abraham Dwuma Odoom, a Deputy Minister of Health who launched the campaign said diseases of sanitation [...]
Kufuor calls for firm global action on climate change
Posted by GNA on 9:26 pm at 9:26 pmPresident John Agyekum Kufuor has called on world leaders to move beyond rhetoric and act firmly to address the global threat posed by climate change in a way that would be satisfactory to all.
Both developed and developing countries, he said, must share in the responsibility to deal with the problem, identified by the United Nations [...]
Sanitation improves in Brong Ahafo
Posted by GNA on 8:46 pm at 8:46 pmAbout 1,002,337 people from 2,640 communities in the Brong-Ahafo Region, has since 1994 benefited from the Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project (STWSSP), as part of the past and present governments initiatives to improve the standard of sanitation in the country.
The beneficiary communities were provided either with boreholes, hand-dug wells or pipe systems, to [...]
CSIR calls for preservation of plant genetic resources
Posted by GNA on 4:35 pm at 4:35 pmProf Emmanuel Owusu-Bennoah, Director General, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has appealed to the Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute (PGRRI) to play its mandated role of preserving plant genetic resources of the country.
He said that role was very unique and crucial to the very existence of plants.
Prof Owusu-Bennoah, who was inaugurating a seven-member [...]
Collaborate to tackle sanitation - NGO
Posted by GNA on 11:48 am at 11:48 am The first National Sanitation Art Competition Awards ceremony has been held in Accra with a call on Ghanaians to team up and tackle the problem of sanitation.
The ceremony, organized by Life Bridge 68 Foundation, an NGO and the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, was aimed at encouraging children and the youth [...]
Review legal framework of Pesticide Law - Prof. Yeboah
Posted by GNA on 8:42 pm at 8:42 pmProfessor Philip O. Yeboah of the School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Ghana, has called for the review of the legal framework of the pesticide law to ensure a complete protection and safety of human life and the environment.
He said the existing law, the Pesticides Control and Management Act 1996 (Act 528) had been [...]



