GHANA
The Republic of Ghana is a West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea. It is renowned within the sub-region for its stability and democratic governance, and over the past 20 years it has made progress in reducing poverty and hunger among its population. However, improvements at the national level mask huge inequalities between the north and south of the country, and between rural and urban areas.
This disparity is, in large part, due to Ghana’s geography, characterized by marked climate, agro-ecological and economic differences. The south has two rainy seasons, while the north has only one. In common with neighboring Sahelian countries, due to climate change the north is experiencing increasingly erratic rainfall. Elsewhere in the country, soil degradation and erosion caused by alternating floods and droughts are leading to creeping desertification. 24% of the people live below the poverty line. http://www1.wfp.org/countries/ghana
During the 1970s, severe drought and an economic downturn transformed Ghana into a country of emigration; neighboring Cote d’Ivoire was the initial destination. Later, hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians migrated to Nigeria to work in its booming oil industry, but most were deported in 1983 and 1985 as oil prices plummeted. Many Ghanaians then turned to more distant destinations, including other parts of Africa, Europe, and North America, but the majority continued to migrate within West Africa. Since the 1990s, increased emigration of skilled Ghanaians, especially to the US and the UK, drained the country of its health care and education professionals. Internally, poverty and other developmental disparities continue to drive Ghanaians from the north to the south, particularly to its urban centers.
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Since 90 percent of households in the northern Ghana rely on agricultural livelihoods, severely limited food production has resulted in chronic poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. Varying food availability causes price fluctuations throughout the country. Because Ghana is a food deficit country, families are also vulnerable to global price spikes for imported commodities, such as rice. http://www1.wfp.org/countries/ghana