{"id":1138683,"date":"2022-06-30T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/girsal-launches-agriculture-stakeholder-convening-platform\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:56:21","slug":"girsal-launches-agriculture-stakeholder-convening-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/girsal-launches-agriculture-stakeholder-convening-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"GIRSAL launches Agriculture Stakeholder Convening Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In its quest to provide sustainable solutions for the agricultural sector, Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending Project (GIRSAL) has launched the Agriculture Stakeholder Convening Platform.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s agricultural sector is saddled with many challenges, ranging from weak institutional enforcement of standards to a lack of a platform to sustain dialogue among key stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The Agriculture Stakeholder Convening Platform dubbed \u201cAgribusiness Public-Private Partnership Platform\u201d will thus focus on providing practical solutions to these challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will primarily seek to provide an avenue for government institutions and private sector to identify and resolve critical challenges in the agricultural finance and agribusiness space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-863976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/291134908_577487453826433_7027946140673810663_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"662\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Under this initiative, GIRSAL will also provide a sustainable and coordinated platform for dialogue among key stakeholders on technical issues affecting the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the platform falls in line with GIRSAL\u2019s 5-years strategic plan aimed at championing the transformation of the agric sector to ensure growth.<\/p>\n<p>This platform is expected to increase productivity, promote a thriving agribusiness environment,\u00a0 encourage investment in the sector, and improve terms of trade and credit.<\/p>\n<p>GIRSAL is well-placed to undertake this initiative because its services benefit the business objectives of both the private and public sectors of increasing investment in the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCitiTVGH%2Fvideos%2F5359688160757451%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its quest to provide sustainable solutions for the agricultural sector, Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending Project (GIRSAL) has launched the Agriculture Stakeholder Convening Platform. Ghana\u2019s agricultural sector is saddled with many challenges, ranging from weak institutional enforcement of standards to a lack of a platform to sustain dialogue among key stakeholders. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3025,19411,16693,1842,5602,12897],"class_list":["post-1138683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-agriculture","tag-convening","tag-girsal","tag-launches","tag-platform","tag-stakeholder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138683","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=1138683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}