Ghana’s Food & Environment Policies
Explore data on policies promoting sustainable agriculture, food security, and climate resilience.
| Policy | Year published | Nutrition relevant | Nutrition relevant policy or program | Target group | Specific nutritionrelevant actions outlined in policies or programs | Implementation approaches | Diet, food or food systems aspects of policies or programs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Agriculture sector Development Policy (FASDEP II) (But under review), Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan (METASIP II) | 2007 | Improved food security & emergency preparedness especially among at risk groups, Improved food safety Promote access to nutritious food, & nutrition & health information. Improved food productivity & food security. Improved nutrition. Increased income growth, Awareness creation | None indicated | Farmers & farming households, consumers | Introduce high-yielding & short-duration crops varieties. Production diversification, Value addition, food fortification, farming input support, capacity building, sustainable resource management, growth in incomes | Collaborations, coordination across sectors, use of technology, BCC, agroprocessing, advocacy | Food security, food safety |
| Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan (METASIP II) | 2011-2015 | Improved food productivity & food security, Improved nutrition, Increased income growth, Awareness creation | Underweight & stunting reduced by 50%, reduce postharvest losses of staple foods by at least 20% of baseline food insecurity reduce by 20% of baseline | Farmers & farming households, consumers | food fortification, food storage & distribution, Diversification of livelihoods, Reduce postharvest losses, agroprocessing, food safety, | Irrigation, mechanization, farming input support, Target vulnerable groups with grants/subsidies, capacity building, sustainable resource management, coordination | Food security, food safety, diet quality |
| Agriculture (METASIP III) Investing for Food and Jobs (IFJ): An Agenda for Transforming Ghana’s | 2018-2021 | Improved nutrition | None indicated | Farmers & farming households, consumers | Improve production efficiency & yield Improve post-harvest management. Develop bio-fortified highnutrient crops & link to school feeding programme. - Develop & promote food-based dietary guidelines livestock & poultry development for food & nutrition security | Subsidies, input supplies; digital technologies across value chain, extension support, increased investment | Food safety, value addition to food, diet quality, |
| Social Development Strategy for the Long-term National Development Plan for Ghana (2017-2057): Food and Nutrition Security | 2017-2057 | Progressively eliminate poverty. promote adequate dietary energy consumption. Decrease childhood wasting. Eliminate infant hunger through adequate breastfeeding and complementary feeding; Reduce post-harvest food child feeding; Promote dietary diversification; Promote consumption of micronutrient rich foods;Sensitization on good food consumption to eliminate child and adult overweight and obesity losses; Improve infant and young. Sensitization on good food consumption to eliminate child and adult overweight and obesity. Improve infant and young child feeding. Promote dietary diversification; promote consumption of micronutrient rich foods | All Ghanaians to become food and nutrition secure by 2057. Improve maternal and child nutrition by 2021. Improve nutritional value and food safety along value by 2025; ;Chain and Improve on childhood stunting by 2025; Chain and Improve on childhood stunting by 2025; Diversification for healthy diets by 2029 -Enhanced food system resilience by 2057; Diversification for healthy diets by 2029 -Enhanced food system resilience by 2057 | Infant and young children, Women of reproductive age youth | Increased yield through inorganic fertilizer; aquaculture; agrobiodiversity | Advocacy, increased food productivity, public private partnerships, capacity strengthening, leverage ICT | healthy lifestyles; promote local foods; school nutrition programming, |
| Ghana Livestock Development Policy and Strategy | 2016 | Improved food & nutrition security; enhance supply (production & productivity) of meat, livestock & dairy products & income; enhance value addition | None indicated | Farmers & general population | Increased supply of animal source foods | Input supply livestock health capacity building | Food & nutrition security, increased animal source food supply |
| Planting for food and jobs | 2017-2020 | improved productivity & intensification of food crops | None indicated | Farming household & consumers | Timely access to quality seeds, availability & use of fertilizer, | Access to extension service, address price volatility, improved governance & targeting, improved marketing | Food security |
| Tree Crops Policy | 2008 | Ensure food security | None indicated | Farming household & consumers | Increased production & productivity of tree crops; Promote product quality; Promote biodiversity | Extension & GAPs mechanization, capacity building, processing, coordination infrastructure enhancement, | Food security |
| Fisheries Management Plan of Ghana | 2015-2019 | Improve food security | None indicated | Stakeholders in fish value chain | Availability & sustainability of fish/marine resources | Governance of fisheries resources, sustainability of fish & marines resources | Food security |
| National Seed Policy | 2013-2018 | None indicated | None indicated | researchers, farmers, producers, processors or consumers (traders, administrators, managers, instructors, students) | None indicated | Coordination, capacity building, multisectoral collaboration | Food security, seed security |
| National Seed Plan | 2015-2020 | None indicated | None indicated | researchers, farmers, producers, processors or consumers (traders, administrators, managers instructors, students) | None indicated | Coordination, capacity building, multisectoral collaboration | Food security, seed security |
| Root & Tuber Improvement & Marketing Programme (RTIMP) | 2007-2014 | Enhance income & food security to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor | None indicated | Rural poor | None indicated | Coordination, monitoring & evaluation, support to root & tuber production, enhancing root & tuber processing, capacity building (business & market skills), networking, technology transfer | Food security |
| National Policy for Aflatoxin control in food & feed | 2020 (draft) | to promote food & feed safety; Strengthen research & technology transfer on aflatoxins; Strengthen surveillance systems for the detection of aflatoxin-related foodborne diseases -Increase public awareness, advocacy, communication & demand for aflatoxin-safe food & feed; ;Develop mechanisms for strengthening consumer protection | None indicated | General population | Increase public awareness, advocacy, communication & demand for aflatoxinsafe food & feed; Develop mechanisms for strengthening consumer protection; ;Testing for aflatoxin in food & feed -Grading of grains; Packaging & labelling of grains | Research, surveillance, increase public awareness, advocacy, communication and demand for aflatoxinsafe food and feed, develop mechanisms for strengthening consumer protection, testing for aflatoxin in food & feed, packaging & labelling of grains; GAP from pre-harvest to storage | Food safety, food security |
| Guidelines for the labelling of prepackaged foods | 2013 | None indicated | None indicated | Pre-packaged food importers & exporters, food manufacturers, producers & processors, consumers | None indicated | Appropriate packaging, clear/ visible labelling, relevant label information; Behavior change communication, standards, M&E | Food safety, labelling, packaging |
| Food Safety Guidelines For Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana | 2020 | Mainstream food safety in government institutions and operational by-laws | None indicated | Ministries, Departments, Agencies Market women/men, Trade Associations, Regulatory institutions | None indicated | None indicated | None indicated |
| Universal Salt Iodization Strategy III and Action Plan | 2016-2020 | Salt for human and animal consumption meets quality and iodization standards; Households know about & consume adequately iodized salt | 90% of households use adequately iodised salt by 2020 -60% of salt producers use appropriate technology; All Salt for human and animal consumption is adequately iodized by 2020 | Extension workers (health, education, etc); households; salt producers, importers, and marketers, media | Increase iodized salt production, promote iodized salt consumption | Establish salt Unit in MoTi, legislation enforcement, quality assurance, BCC, advocacy, promote technology uptake by producers, District salt plans, iodization sites at major markets, capacity building, penalties | Increase iodized salt consumption |
| Irrigation Policy | 2011 | Improved food security Intensified & diversified production | None indicated | Non indicated | improved, responsible productivity | Environmental management, private sector investment, funding, capacity building, | Food security |
| Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA): Synopsis of Development Strategy | 2010-2030 | Improve access to food & sustainable livelihoods security | None indicated | Inhabitants of northern savannah ecological zone – poor peasants especially women | Improve access to food & sustainable livelihoods, men & women empowerment, sustain food crop production management of floodprone riverbeds | Community engagement, M&E, collaboration, capacity building, resource mobilization | Food security |
| Fisheries Act (Act 625) | 2002 | None indicated | None indicated | General population | None indicated | Licensing of fishing, closed seasons, Authorization and prohibitions, M&E | Fisheries sustainability |