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Driving Climate Resilience and Nature Positive Value Chain Development in Ghana – Private Sector Driven and Public Sector Enabled

Ghana’s food system faces persistent challenges linked to land degradation, low productivity, climate vulnerability, and limited access to finance for smallholders and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), particularly in the northern regions. Women and youth, who make up a significant share of soybean producers and processors, face barriers to inputs, technology, and markets. Soybean presents a strategic entry point for transformation: as a nitrogen fixing, drought tolerant crop with high national demand for food and feed, it supports soil restoration, income generation, and nutritional improvements. The Joint Programme aims to strengthen regenerative production, expand processing capacity, improve policy coherence, and unlock blended finance to support inclusive value chain growth.

• Enhanced regenerative and climate‑smart production practices among smallholders, improving yields and land health.
• Strengthened processing capacity and reduction of post‑harvest losses through improved technologies.
• Improved nutrition through expanded use of soy‑based foods in households and school meals.
• Strengthened policy coherence across food, climate, land, and biodiversity strategies.
• Improved access to finance for MSMEs, cooperatives, and women‑ and youth‑led enterprises through investment clinics and guarantee facility design.

Ministry of Food and Agriculture; Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation; Ministry of Finance; Regional and District Assemblies; Greenland Seeds; Newage Agric; Development Bank of Ghana; GIRSAL; cooperatives and producer groups.

• Demonstration farms and farmer field schools supporting regenerative agriculture and seed production.
• Improved inputs and post‑harvest technologies distributed to smallholders, especially women and youth.
• Capacity-building for households and school caterers on soy‑based recipes and nutrition.
• National Food‑Environment Policy Coherence Platform established and operational.
• Investment clinics conducted; pipeline of MSMEs and cooperatives identified; design of a loan portfolio guarantee facility completed.