Progressive Women Foundation, Ghana

 
The Project aim is to improve the nutritional and Incomes levels of women and their families. Women will be supported to establish Moringa oliefera gardens to produce seedlings and trees. The women will also be supported through provision of sheep, as part of a revolving fund that will pass benefits onto other members of the local community.

 

 Community Goat Project

The Animal Research Institute in Accra, in association with the Ghana Society of Animal Production and the Canadian Society of Animal Production (GSAP-CSAS), received funding for a revolving goat project as economic support to rural women involved in the sheanut industry in northern Ghana.  The project will provide breeding herds of goats to women groups in 10 communities in northern Ghana, heping to support the livelihoods of 340 women in the first year.

 

Community Grasscutter Project

Grasscutters are the most preferred bushmeat speecies

Each beneficiary household will return an agreed number

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This project seeks to empower local communities with skills and resources to domesticate grasscutter rats (Thryonomys swinderianus) and increase the production of their meat for local markets.  This has dual significance in that it serves both as a source of income for local people but also as a conservation strategy for wild grasscutter populations.

Grasscutters are the most preferred bushmeat species in Ghana and the most important throughout West Africa in terms of volume of trade and preference.  This project promotes the production of Grasscutters by rural communities through husbandry training by staff from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and by providing them with the initial stock of animals to begin their own farming enterprises.

Each beneficiary household will return an agreed number of offspring to the community to enable others to benefit. The project is expected to provide employment and supplementary income, reduce pressure on wild Grasscutter populations and directly reduce the incidence of wildfires - the most common mode of capture for wild animals.