Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsTrax on Instagram
No Instagram images were found.
-
Trax Ghana
-
Recent Posts
- TRAX GHANA PLAY HOST TO TWO INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FOR FIELDWORK
- Trax Ghana Greenhouse Farming Project
- Trax Ghana Contribute to Addressing Youth Unemployment and Poverty in the Upper East Region
- TRAX GHANA PLAYS HOST TO TWO (2) UDS FIELD PRACTICAL PROGRAMME STUDENTS
- Trax Ghana participated in CAOF AGM
Archives
- October 2022
- September 2022
- September 2021
- August 2021
- April 2021
- February 2021
- September 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- July 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- November 2017
- October 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
Category Archives: gender equality
Using Women’s Empowerment to Change Lives: Support Our New Campaign
Trax believe the route to successful development is through empowerment and gender equality. Today we are launching a campaign to support 600 women in northern Ghana by empowering them to take ownership of their finances and decisions. In the northern … Continue reading
New Women’s Group taken through VSLA Constitution Development
Trax supports women to establish Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) to take control of their own finances. Since we began this initiative some years ago, there has been high demand from women’s group to establish new VSLAs. Trax Ghana … Continue reading
Celebrating the Contribution of Women Farmers in Northern Ghana
This International Women’s Day we are celebrating women farmers everywhere. Women farmers constitute more than half of the labour force on small farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this, they typically have little or no ownership of land, property, or income. … Continue reading
TRAX GHANA FARMERS USE WEIGHING SCALE FOR MARKETING OF OFSP PRODUCE
Given the high level of malnutrition in Ghana, the country needs a holistic approach of supplementation, food fortification and dietary diversification to combat malnutrition. Trax Ghana is promoting the resilient nutritious Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) rich in Vitamin A to … Continue reading
Community Empowerment Strategies – Facilitation of new farmers groups
Community empowerment is more than the involvement, participation or engagement of communities. It implies community ownership and action that explicitly aims at social and political change. The aim of Trax Ghana is to develop the capacity of smallholder farmers in … Continue reading
PROMOTING ORANGE-FLESHED SWEETPOTATO (OFSP) IN NORTHERN GHANA – THE CONTRIBUTION OF TRAX GHANA AND ITS COLLABORATORS
A nutritious Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) variety is growing in popularity and becoming an important strategy to improve vitamin A deficiency which remains a public health problem, especially in Northern Ghana. OFSP is being disseminated by Trax Ghana with donor and … Continue reading
Trax Ghana Seed Loan scheme
Trax Ghana seed system is based on a revolving seed supply with an inbuilt interest-generation mechanism on seed loan. The system provides farmers with a fallback mechanism and has enables them to be more seed secure and this has contributed … Continue reading
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
Leave a comment
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
2 Comments