Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana

There is a gap today in funding for investment in developing countries. A recent assessment of financing in the agriculture sector in Ghana based on existing financial sector laws showed that, there is currently no distinct policy to enable lending to the agricultural sector. However, with an ever i...

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Autores principales: Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Asare, Richard, Mensah, Christian, Naponen, Martin, Saeed, Abdul Razak
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107737
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author Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan
Asare, Richard
Mensah, Christian
Naponen, Martin
Saeed, Abdul Razak
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description There is a gap today in funding for investment in developing countries. A recent assessment of financing in the agriculture sector in Ghana based on existing financial sector laws showed that, there is currently no distinct policy to enable lending to the agricultural sector. However, with an ever increasing need to address the challenges of climate change, the need for such policies and resulting finance opportunities for smallholder farmers and other supply chain actor will only increase and become more urgent. Unchanged, most needed investments to address the growing challenges will be made by the private sector or by the farmers themselves. Therefore, public actors, including COCOBOD, need to play a key role in building an enabling environment, including the development of supportive policies, institutions and making matching-funds available. Reducing supply chain risk and improving resilience through such efforts that signal a more secure and favourable framework is key to enabling private actors, especially the more financially vulnerable, to invest. Existing policy initiatives and programs geared towards creating an enabling environment for finance to the sector are currently led by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and other sector agencies and financial NGO’s
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spelling CGSpace1077372025-11-11T10:39:05Z Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan Asare, Richard Mensah, Christian Naponen, Martin Saeed, Abdul Razak food security agriculture climate change ghana There is a gap today in funding for investment in developing countries. A recent assessment of financing in the agriculture sector in Ghana based on existing financial sector laws showed that, there is currently no distinct policy to enable lending to the agricultural sector. However, with an ever increasing need to address the challenges of climate change, the need for such policies and resulting finance opportunities for smallholder farmers and other supply chain actor will only increase and become more urgent. Unchanged, most needed investments to address the growing challenges will be made by the private sector or by the farmers themselves. Therefore, public actors, including COCOBOD, need to play a key role in building an enabling environment, including the development of supportive policies, institutions and making matching-funds available. Reducing supply chain risk and improving resilience through such efforts that signal a more secure and favourable framework is key to enabling private actors, especially the more financially vulnerable, to invest. Existing policy initiatives and programs geared towards creating an enabling environment for finance to the sector are currently led by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and other sector agencies and financial NGO’s 2019-12-01 2020-03-12T19:20:34Z 2020-03-12T19:20:34Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107737 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Dalaa M, Asare R, Mensah C, Naponen M, Saeed AR. 2019. Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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Asare, Richard
Mensah, Christian
Naponen, Martin
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Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana
title Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana
title_full Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana
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title_full_unstemmed Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana
title_short Policy document and brief for engagement with government and private sector in Cocoa: A case of Ghana
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climate change
ghana
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107737
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