Question

Discuss some policy shift that are needed to reduce Ghana’s dependence on food imports as a measure to improve capacity to respond to future crisis like Covid 19

Answer 1

There is a need in Ghana to rethink dependency on food imports and it can be done in following ways :-

1- improvement in food self sufficiency by increasing domestic production by finding out the potential ,it should be focused on small scale family farmers as it will also increase employment in rular belt .

2-Necessary changes in the international trade regime, allowing for more protectionto give space for the development of domestic growth of food.

Ghana should be in a position to prioritise food production over trade Interest. .

Support for domestic production

1-agricultural policies relates to decrease food import Dependency and increaseFood security should be directed.

2- mainly focus on small scale farmers

3-development of local infrastructure which will allow farmers to connect easily to the market.

4-strengthening participation of farmers organisation.

5-agricultural and specially for trade solid be halted for few years In bilateral tradeWhich will promote the foreign investment.