Ghana updates

Baba Mohammadu Jamaldeen is an MSc student at the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana working on the role of soil moisture in farmers’ agricultural decision-making within the Wagrinnova project.

Climate Information Services and Food security in Ghana: Joint Policy Recommendations from WATERAPPS and EVOCA projects

Dogbey Richard Kwame is a MSc student at the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana working on the implementation of the Farmer Support App within the Wagrinova project. Testing the app and giving trainings for local farmers.

Training to help farmers work with the FarmerSupport app have started so they will be able to use the app in the upcoming growing season.

FarmerSupport is a hydro-climatic information service which provides farmers in urbanizing deltas of the world location and time-specific weather information. This information is tailor-made to their agricultural decisions. It helps to improve crop production and simultaneously increase adaptive capacity. This mobile App is now online in the google play store and being tested in Tamale, northern Ghana.

The WaterApps project tries to work together with farmers to develop tools utilizing seasonal forecasts and weather forecast in farmer decision making. The project has started a business challenge to develop a mobile application to support this process.

With the WaterApps project, Wageningen University and partners are working to provide tailored climate and weather information to smallholder farmers in Ghana and Bangladesh. In line with this project, the WaterApps business challenge is launched on the 24th of July at the Ghana Innovation Hub Conference. This business challenge aims to involve local start-ups in developing a mobile application (app) that can answer to the needs of smallholder farmers in Ghana.