Ensuring food security in Ghana

Food security has become a global issue, as a result of the war in Ukraine, a leading producer of wheat. That is why as a wise and aspirational African people, we must now highlight the efforts of the most successful and innovative  farmers, in our homeland Ghana - and none comes close to what  B-BOVID Farms Limited's founder, Issa Ouedraogo, has achieved in less than twenty years.

Issa, an orphan who went abroad to study in Germany, then worked overseas and saved enough (US $800,000) to enable him return home to  invest in his dream:  establishing an agrisector  social impact  business, with a value-chain of empowered oil palm smallholder  farmer-stakeholders, as a way of giving back to society, for his good fortune in escaping from the poverty-trap.

As it happens, today, the world has finally embraced the idea of business impacting both society and the natural environment, positively, by bedrocking  the ethos that guides its operations on good governance principles that result in a C-Suit  management-culture focused on diversity and environmental stewardship in all the communities they serve worldwide.

That is why the Issa Ouedraogos in our midst, ought to be embraced - for, their innovative  agrisector social impact business model, empowers its value-chain's smallholder farmer-stakeholders to bootstrap their way out of the brutish-hellish-trap of extreme poverty, successfully, generates jobs galore across rural Ghana, and also helps to green our country, because tree-planting is an integral part of their operations.

Replicated nationwide,  agrisector social impact businesses will enable Ghana to ensure food security, and increase its natural capital as agroforestry projects. Our ruling-elites really ought to focus on incentivising our national economy's private sector's most innovative agripreneurs, with tax breaks and seek their views on how to create wealth that remains locally, and generate meaningful jobs for rural Ghana's younger generations, while ensuring food security for Mother Ghana, above all.