{"id":1117285,"date":"2022-06-10T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/10\/mofa-and-stakeholders-partnership-key-for-agro-based-policies-gawu\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:33:10","slug":"mofa-and-stakeholders-partnership-key-for-agro-based-policies-gawu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/10\/mofa-and-stakeholders-partnership-key-for-agro-based-policies-gawu\/","title":{"rendered":"MOFA and stakeholders partnership key for agro-based policies-GAWU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Kumasi, June 10, GNA &#8211; The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) needs to establish strong linkages with stakeholders to fast track the implementation of the Government\u2019s agro-based policies, the General Agricultural Workers\u2019 Union (GAWU) has noted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cThe Ministry ought to be more comprehensive in its consultations with stakeholders so that policies affecting the sustainable development of agriculture are implemented to the letter,\u201d Mr. Edward Kareweh, the GAWU General-Secretary, said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">According to him, an effective liaison could not be ignored, if the various actors along the agricultural value chain were to be responsive to their core duties for increased productivity and economic growth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr. Kareweh, who was addressing a National Executive Council (NEC) Meeting of the GAWU, in Kumasi, said achieving food sufficiency was a shared responsibility.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The GAWU, he said, was concerned about the outcomes of the implementation of certain policies such as the Planting for Food and Jobs (PfJ), amongst others.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cWe believe the active involvement of all identifiable stakeholders was needed to realise the intended objectives of these policies, especially their focus on ensuring the availability of food products and creating jobs for the people,\u201d the General-Secretary observed.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He urged members of the GAWU to be more involved in the activities of the Union for its growth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr. Faisal Mukailla, Assistant Director for MOFA, who took the GAWU executives through the \u2018Ghana New Food Agricultural Policy\u2019, said it had been the main driving policy for the agricultural sector since 2002.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The policy, he said, needed to be renewed to reflect the global, continental, regional and national developmental framework.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr. Andrew Tagoe, the Deputy General-Secretary of GAWU, said the Union would not relent in using all available systems and policies to ensure that agriculture without child labour became possible in the country.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumasi, June 10, GNA &#8211; The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) needs to establish strong linkages with stakeholders to fast track the implementation of the Government\u2019s agro-based policies, the General Agricultural Workers\u2019 Union (GAWU) has noted. \u201cThe Ministry ought to be more comprehensive in its consultations with stakeholders so that policies affecting the sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[17063,2079,5217,1983,17064,460],"class_list":["post-1117285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-agrobased","tag-key","tag-mofa","tag-partnership","tag-policiesgawu","tag-stakeholders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}