Agriculture
According to Ghana's Shared Growth and Development Agenda 2010-2013, the agricultural sector is tasked with ensuring food security and the supply of high-quality meat, animal, and dairy products to ensure a balanced diet and proper nutrition. In terms of livestock and poultry products, Ghana undergoes a supply-consumption deficit. There are many reasons for this, including poor management practices (feeding and health care), a low level of productivity, and the inability of local livestock farmers to compete with cheap imports. In order to achieve this goal, the following initiatives have been suggested: Research into large scale breeding and production of guinea fowls, cattle, and sheep, goat and goat products.
A comprehensive and well-arranged skill development in Sheep and Goat and other livestock entrepreneurial engagements is being carried-out amongst the populace to nurture in them irreversible culture in livestock farming and enhance existing local experiences. This initiative is immensely generating employment opportunities within the local setting as it promotes their economic status. The youthful exuberance of the young folks is being properly directed to assist in eliminating high tendency of social vices which are so prevalent in our communities in recent times.
To tackle this problem in our little way, OSDA in collaboration with one senior intern (Dr Ebenezer Gamli) from Heifer International Ghana have been building the capacities of the youth and women with fewer opportunities since 2012. Giving them access to the right tools and methodological approaches which enables them to open up social enterprises that would contribute to sustainable development of their lives as well as their local communities. It is in line with this that, Organisation for Strategic Development in Africa has it as one of its cardinal objectives to identify, mobilize and motivate households with much focus on the youth to actively engage in sheep and goat rearing.
