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Category Archives: News Update
ZUARUNGU MOSHIE SCHOOL BENEFITS FROM A SUMMER HAT
Rustic Pathways provides international community service programs for high school students. Their programs introduce students to a variety of service experiences that benefit the communities they visit, while showing students the impact they can have on the world. Additionally, these … Continue reading
Posted in Community Capacity Building, Education, News Update, Uncategorized
Tagged Best of Both, bolgatanga, Community-based, Education, Northern Ghana, Trax Ghana
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Trax Ghana Seed Loan scheme
Trax Ghana seed system is based on a revolving seed supply with an inbuilt interest-generation mechanism on seed loan. The system provides farmers with a fallback mechanism and has enables them to be more seed secure and this has contributed … Continue reading
Happy Independence Day
Trax Ghana congratulates all our farmers, staff, partners and all other Ghanaians on the occasion of Independence Day. Today marks the independence gained from Great Britain in 1957 and is traditionally celebrated with parades around the country.
Rain-Fed Farming: What Happens in the Dry Season?
The large majority of the rural farmers in the North of Ghana depend on rain-fed agriculture as their primary source of income. Unlike the South of the country, Northern Ghana has only one rainy season that normally starts in April/May … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Livelihoods, Food Security, News Update
Tagged drought, dry-season gardening
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Bringing together Sweet Potato stakeholders for the annual OFSP conference
Trax Ghana aspires to be one of the leading NGOs involved in the promotion of the orange fleshed sweet potato (OFSP). In order to share Trax’s experiences with other stakeholders, Trax organizes its annual OFSP Conference in Bolgatanga. This year’s … Continue reading
Laptops for Rural Primary Schools
The Best of Both, British School of Brussels has been linked up with four primary schools in the rural areas around Bolgatanga. Over the past five years, they have engaged in various knowledge exchange projects and supported their partners with … Continue reading
The Best of Both & Trax Represented at the IB Conference in Rome
In October, three student representatives of The Best of Both travelled from their homes in Belgium to Rome, Italy to give a presentation at the International Baccalaureate (IB) Africa, Europe and Middle East conference. The International Baccalaureate conference is an … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Education, News Update
Tagged Best of Both, International Baccalaureate, Rome
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The Need for Seed: Smallholder Farmers and the Plant Breeders Bill
In recent weeks there has been a lot of discussion in Ghanaian media about the Plant Breeders Bill which was waiting to go through Parliament. Here at Trax we have also been thinking about the ways this Bill could impact … Continue reading
Supporting Women with Seed for Food Security and as Start-Up Capital
Research shows that if women have equal access to land, livestock, new technologies, financial services, education and extension advice, agricultural production across Africa would increase by 20 to 30%. This could decrease the number of hungry people globally by 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Food Security, gender equality, News Update
Tagged alternative livelihoods, groundnut, payback scheme, Seeds, soybean, women
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