This year Agrihouse Foundation is committed to exploring more creative and innovative ideas that will have increased impacts on our projects and beneficiaries, Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa has noted.
“Last year, we focused on working smart. By doing so, we made the most of our internal and external resources to scale up our impacts. This year, we aim to build on the efforts we implemented in 2022, with more creativity and innovation,” she said in a meeting.
While expressing gratitude to sponsor organizations and stakeholders whose financial and technical support contributed to successes the Foundation chalked last year, Ms. Akosa reiterated the need for more partnerships and collaborations this year, which she said, is the way to sustain development and productivity, within the agric sector.
Last year, Agrihouse Foundation chalked a number of successes across the value chain through its interventional projects and collaborations.
The Gathering of the Royals brought together fifty (50) Queen Mothers and traditional leaders to discuss agricultural development and highlight projects they are championing in their various clans and districts. The event hosted selected parliamentarians, development partners and corporative institutions to be part of the conversations around agric development, making room for practical, realistic and achievable solutions to be discussed.
Through a Call TO ACTIONS Communique, policy directions aimed at strengthening sustainable farming and a women friendly agricultural system was put together and presented to the political figures and organizational leaders who were present at the event.
The Agricultural Students Career Guidance and Mentorship Dialogue bootcamp (Ag-Stud Africa) benefitted about 60 students last year. Since 2018, over 700 over agric students and beginner agribusinesses have participated in the bootcamp, developing strong and bankable business plans. The experience has empowered over 500 students from 30 different schools with entrepreneurship skills and supported them with start-up capital to start their agri-businesses. About 250 beginner agribusinesses have been established by students who have participated in AG-STUD.
The Livestock, Poultry, Fisheries Training and Tradeshow (LIPF), has in the four years attracted local and international animal farmers and exhibitors from countries like Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia, since 2019. The two-day event has empowered over 50,000 sub holder farmers to venture into animal agriculture, with training and capacity building skills in poultry, piggery, rabbit, cattle, and snail farming. Over 90% of participants and exhibitors testify positively about the event, describing it as a perfect introductory training program for animal farmers.
The Women in Food and Agricultural Leadership Forum & Gold in the Soil Awards has empowered over 25% of participants to start thriving agribusiness with the training they have received. Since 2019, the two-part event has awarded about 300 women who excel exceptionally as farmers and have taken up leadership roles within their within their communities and regions, as aggregators, NGO Founders, Women Farmer Organization leaders, among others. In 2022, about 50% of women farmers recorded at the event manage 10 to 65 acres of farmland, and are between the ages 25-65years, with a number of them being women farmers with a physical disability.
The Pre-harvest Agribusiness Conference and Exhibitions has for twelve (12) years, served as a stimulating platform for training, and for creating increased stakeholder linkages, exhibitions and expanded opportunities. The event has benefitted over 100,000 farmers and agribusinesses, by removing constraints to market and financial accessibility. Last year, the 3-day event recorded 154 agribusinesses, as well as, Development Partners, Donor Agencies, Corporate Institutions, Civil Society, key Government Ministries and Agencies, Industry and Business Leaders.
The Agriwoman Marketplace Module, since its inception in 2021 has supported women led agribusinesses through networking, exhibitions and marketing. About 300 women farmers and women-led agribusinesses have benefited from the initiative, which also offers opportunity for knowledge sharing and capacity-building dialogues. The agri-women have testified about increased sales, securing major deals with local and international companies that purchase raw and semi-processed agric produce.
The 1household, 1garden Initiative, being funded by AGRA through USAID- Feed the Future Program, has in its first phase empowered over 2000 households to become more self-reliant and conscious about food security. The households are freely provided 12 assorted vegetable seedlings, manure, garden tools, treated soil, Training Manual, garden structures, and given the needed support and gardening manuals to help them establish their garden and manage it.
The Agriwatchgh News Portal and the Mobile App, since 2021, have become a trusted news source for agric news, updating all stakeholders with issues, and trends happening in the agricultural sector regionally, nationally and globally.
