Agroforestry and Forestry

INEC-Ghana has been involved in ensuring the food security of many vulnerable communities in Ghana through approaches that ensure optimal crop yields and improve environmental sustainability. For instance, working with communities we established many hectares of organic maize and yam farms at Yeji within the Pru District of the Bono Region, in the forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana.

Additionally, using the taungya system in Ghana, INEC-Ghana has provided many vulnerable community women and youth access to lands to participate in climate smart-agriculture in many parts of Ghana.

With respect to Forestry, INEC-Ghana aims at restoring degraded forests in Ghana with threatened and critically endangered indigenous species.

• Trained 1000 farmers on nursery establishment for endangered African Teak (Pericopsis elata) in the Nyinahin Forest District.
• Trained 1000 farmers to use agroforestry approaches to transplant seedlings of endangered African teak (Pericopsis elata) on their farms.
• Established 20-hectare Ofram and Prekese plantation at Asenayo Forest Reserve.
• Restored 50-hectare degraded forest with teak (Tectona grandis) plantation at Hwediem.