Ghana: Food Security, Climate Change and Global Resource Scarcity

Global demand for food will double in coming decades, through population growth and rising levels of consumption. Ensuring the planet produces enough food for all in a sustainable way will be a real challenge, and climate change will hamper our efforts if it is not tackled.

Food security is crucial to helping the poorest countries help themselves out of poverty. This is why the United Kingdom is leading on making food security an issue that is discussed at a global level. Starting at the upcoming G-8 summit, we will help launch a new alliance to lift 50 million out of poverty over the next ten years, using private sector investment to help people achieve the food security we all take for granted in the U.K.

For nearly 50 years, there were grain mountains in Europe and North America, with prices at historic lows. Yet hundreds of millions of people still faced chronic hunger and malnourishment, which blighted generation after generation of children. One in three Africans still go hungry today, in a world of plenty, so it is vital we help the poorest people access the food that is available.>>>more

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Trade Liberalization

My Take : The CAP which subtly underlines European trade with other developing countries like Ghana is the main course of trade imbalance and the primary reason why Ghana must beware of the Economic Partnership Agreement.Whiles EU seeks access to african markets at lower costs for their produce,they reciprocate these with many blockages to disallow access from other developing countries..

The CAP is a form of protectionism designed to defend European producers from cheaper products outside the EU. This was once done by subsidising agricultural produce but is now achieved by the EU deterring imports from outside the EU with a system of import tariffs and simultaneously subsidising farmers through the Single Farm Payment. >>> more