Ghana
In Ghana, Oxfam's focus is on sustainable livelihoods, health care, and helping people to have a say in decisions that affect them.
Supporting local economies
Despite abundant natural resources, high rates of unemployment, soaring inflation and poor investment make Ghana heavily dependent on aid.
- 70 per cent of people in the poor northern regions live on less than $1 a day
- Life expectancy is a mere 58
The dumping of cheap, subsidised Western rice onto local markets is having a disastrous effect on the livelihoods of local farmers, undercutting their produce and putting scores of them out of business.
We are condemned to life-long poverty, because everything we try to do in agriculture, we have to do at a loss.
Ghanaian farmer
How Oxfam is helping
We carry out training to help farmers produce more, and campaign to help improve their ability to trade successfully in local, national and regional markets.
- We have trained 215 communities and several hundred producer groups in farming techniques. This increases competitiveness in local markets
- We helped found the Peasant Farmers' Association of Ghana to represent farmers needs to government. It now has more than 2 million members
