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Monthly Archives: October 2014
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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Harvest time at Pelungu Primary School’s Organic Garden
Harvest time is getting near in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Pelungu Primary School, partner Antwerp International School, under the Best of Both Program, has also started harvesting its first yields from the organic vegetable garden that was established … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Education, News Update
Tagged Antwerp International School, garden, harvest, organic, Pelungu, preservation, school, vegetable
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Reflections from a Visiting Researcher Working with Trax
In February Trax welcomed Rachael Taylor, a Doctoral researcher from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Today we say goodbye to Rachael as she returns to the UK to prepare her thesis. In this post Rachael shares her … Continue reading
Harvesting Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes: Yields, Soils, and Pests
This week Trax field staff are visiting farmers to observe the harvesting of orange-fleshed sweet potato and weigh the yield. For many of the farmers this was the first time they had grown this variety of sweet potato. Field staff … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, News Update
Tagged harvest, native variety, orange-fleshed sweet potato, sandy soil, Sweet potato, sweet potato weevil, Trax Ghana, Vitamin A, yield
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Farmer Testimony: How I returned to Farming
Farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana face a lot of challenges. This prompts many to take up alternative sources of livelihoods, among which are illegal mining and low-skilled physically demanding jobs in urban areas such as head porting. … Continue reading
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Farmers are Experimenting with Crops to Adapt
This morning Trax staff and a visiting researcher met with some farmers who described the ways they are experimenting and innovating. The farmers, both beneficiaries of the Trax project, explained that they are experimenting because they need to find a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate change, News Update
Tagged Adaptation, Cassava, Clmate, Experimentation, farming, Innovation, Rice, Trax Ghana, Trial
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Farmer Testimony: Community Trainers Instigate Grassroots Scaling-Up
As we have mentioned elsewhere, Trax is concerned with the sustainability of our project interventions within environmental, social, and economic domains. Features of the Trax project which support the sustainability of our interventions socially include the formation of farmer groups, … Continue reading
Top Performer: Duusi Primary School
In everything Trax does, sustainability is always a top priority. This is no different in our partnership with Best of Both, a charity set up by Belgian high school students. Best of Both supports five public primary schools in the … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Livelihoods, Education, Livestock, News Update, Sustainability
Tagged agriculture, Best of Both, Duusi, garden, organic
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Improved Mudstoves save more than just energy
There is currently a movement to increase the use of clean cooking stoves in Sub-Saharan Africa. Clean cooking stoves can take many forms, one of which is a variation of traditional mud-built stoves. Sometimes they are referred to as energy-saving mud stoves because … Continue reading
Posted in Agro-forestry, Climate change, Environment, gender equality
Tagged bolgatanga, clean cooking stove, cooking, deforestation, Environment, gender, Improved mud stove, Kabusgo, Pelungu, stove, trees
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Supporting Knowledge Acquisition: Trax’s Library & Secretarial Services
Trax Ghana is known for providing smallholder farmers with more advanced agronomic methods and techniques. However, Trax supports knowledge enhancement at a much broader level. Its headquarters in Bolgatanga, on the first floor of the First National Bank, near the … Continue reading
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