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One of the KIC Fellows, Hannah Dorkenu , reached out to me earlier in 2025, wanting to interview me for her research. It explores how research and data services can better support agribusinesses in Ghana . She is a final-year Master of Development Practice student at UC Berkeley, California. That area is close to my old stomping grounds of Stanford but it can feel as far as the farm gate . Hannah was trying to find out how research and data services can support agribusinesses in Ghana to make more strategic, evidence-based decisions. It would not stop there, the findings would form the design of a practical research support service. For more than 4 years now, I have been the Entrepreneurship Development Specialist at the  Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) . KIC transforms, invests in and supports businesses in the agric value chain, especially young people. I have been managing our flagship program - AgriTech Challenge - inception in 2016 - since 2020, after spending a year ...

The  +GhanaThink Foundation  was born through the activity of Ghanaians in the Diaspora. Since the  +Barcamp Ghana  movement took off in earnest in Ghana, most of GhanaThink's engagement has been in Ghana. The very second Barcamp done by our group was Barcamp Diaspora in DC in July 2009.  +Diaspora Camp  DC followed in July 2010 and that has been the last one. We're seeking to reignite Diaspora based activity. Yesterday's  +Diaspora Camp  Africa Day Google Hangout about Agriculture and Youth is a step. It proved to be quite successful too. The #AfricaDayAgric chat was organized to celebrate Africa Day which falls on May 25, the day the African Union (formerly the Organization of African Unity) was born in 1963. The theme for this AU celebration is around Agriculture as 2014 has been declared the Year of Agriculture and Food Security in Africa. This Google Hangout on Air ( broadcast on Youtube ) was the first of the new online engagement seri...

"Agriculture covers 60% of the workforce in Ghana". We heard this many times while growing up. Agriculture was and is extremely important in Ghana and we had and still have mostly an agrarian economy. As a country, we have set out a day to honour our farmers (and fishermen) and that day is typically the first Friday of each December - Farmer's Day. Think #Ghana, it's Friday! #TGIF! Happy Farmer's Day #Ghana ! Celebrate our farmers today. Let's eat what we grow & grow what we eat. #FarmersDay http://t.co/eh9xFsAljk — GhanaThink (@Ghanathink) December 6, 2013 Eat what we grow and growing what we eat will remind many Ghanaians of our former head of state Acheampong. He championed an " Operation Feed Yourself " campaign which encouraged sustainable agriculture. This is semi-communicated in this year's theme for Farmer's Day as well - " Reducing Post-Harvest losses for Sustainable Food Security and Nutrition ". We can't ...