US providing Ghana with US$2.5m in development aid amid global food crisis

The United State has announced new monetary support in the area of development assistance to Ghana.

The sum of US$2.5 million announced today (August 5, 2022) is to help Ghana amid a global food crisis, a USAID statement read.

The statement comes at a time a top official of the Joe Biden administration is in town on an official visit.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Greenfield, arrived in Accra on the second leg of her three-nation Africa tour.

She was in Uganda on the first leg of her tour and will end the tour with a visit to Cape Verde from Ghana.

UNITED STATES PROVIDES $2.5 MILLION IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN GHANA AMID GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY CRISIS

Friday, August 5, 2022

The United States is providing $2.5 million in new development assistance, subject to congressional notification, in Ghana through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

As an existing Feed the Future partner country, Ghana will intensify efforts to directly mitigate the impacts of growing food insecurity, which has been exacerbated by Russia’s unprovoked aggression in Ukraine. A confluence of crises has pushed many Ghanaians into hunger.

Food and fertilizer prices, already high as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, have soared even higher due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, putting families at risk.

This additional USAID funding in Ghana will focus on developing and marketing inorganic and organic fertilizer products, and support fertilizer importers and blenders/manufacturers, including private sector partners, to bring more fertilizer into the country and ensure they reach the most vulnerable farmers.

Supporting vulnerable households and individuals to protect their health and economic livelihoods can strengthen food systems, which in turn can help mitigate the risks of food insecurity that can erode existing capacities to meet a population’s needs.

Feed the Future’s intensified efforts to mitigate this crisis and alleviate food insecurity and malnutrition in Ghana are part of Congress’ bipartisan emergency supplemental bill signed by President Biden in May.

This includes $2.76 billion in supplemental U.S. government resources to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations from the escalating global food security crisis exacerbated by Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war in Ukraine and the severe drought in the Horn of Africa region.