Alfred Godwin Adjabeng

The Ghana School Farms Project was piloted in the Northern Regions of Ghana and provides an innovative, entrepreneurial and sustainable means to achieving food security, education and employment goals.

The project is a stakeholder Project between the school, the local Ministry of Food and Agriculture, local government representative and the local traditional head.

The schools hosted the project, the ministry of food and agriculture provided free consultation and technical know-how as part of the ministry’s extension service and the school provided the land and minor labor, where the schools do not have lands, the communities provided and also with hard labor.

Lassia-Tuolu Senior High School is located in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It was part of the schools that have to close down because there was no food to feed the students. Sorghum was the crop cultivated in this school.

Savelugu Senior High School is located in the Savelugu Municipality of the Northern Region of Ghana. The School operates a Boarding system with a population of about 500 students. The school is one of the affected schools who had to close down because of the delay in the release of feeding grants from government. Maize was the crop cultivated in this school.

Two acres of land were cultivated and these produce would be used to feed the students. 20% of the produce would be sold to an identified market and the money generated will go into an agreeable fund to be used to cultivate the next year. 10% will be used to pay for the schools utility services.

The Project will also partner a local dietician service or local University to provide a food curriculum that helps provide highly nutritious meal with what they grow.

The students involved for minor labor will gain some entrepreneurial or employable skills for life. The project will engage the agricultural curriculum of the schools to help make it a success with all its stakeholders.

Our intervention, Ghana School Farms Project is expected to have impact in these two main areas:

1. The schools we visited were in dept due to the fact that they had to order for food stuffs across regions and neighboring countries. Our intervention is expected to help lessen this burden of cost in supplies.
2. The schools we visited were about to close down due to unavailability of food and the delay in government releasing feeding grant the following academic year. This project is expected to bring some support and relief.