Category Archives: gender equality

Using Women’s Empowerment to Change Lives: Support Our New Campaign

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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New Women’s Group taken through VSLA Constitution Development

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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Celebrating the Contribution of Women Farmers in Northern Ghana

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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TRAX GHANA FARMERS USE WEIGHING SCALE FOR MARKETING OF OFSP PRODUCE

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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Community Empowerment Strategies – Facilitation of new farmers groups

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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PROMOTING ORANGE-FLESHED SWEETPOTATO (OFSP) IN NORTHERN GHANA – THE CONTRIBUTION OF TRAX GHANA AND ITS COLLABORATORS

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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Trax Ghana Seed Loan scheme

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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Earning an Additional Annual Income through VSLA

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Rachael Taylor

Under a tree in Nwan, a farming community in the Upper East Region in Ghana, there is a group of women who come together every week to make savings. Their Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) was established in October … Continue reading →

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Supporting Women with Seed for Food Security and as Start-Up Capital

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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Improved Mudstoves save more than just energy

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Rachael Taylor

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 →

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