Support Sustainable

Farming

The Generating Revenues & Opportunities for Women to Improve Nutrition in Ghana (GROWING) is a 4.5-year (March 2022 December 2026) project that aims to improve the nutritional and financial security of women, youth and young children in six districts of Northern Ghana. Being financed by Global Affairs Canada, GROWING employs an integrated climate-smart agriculture-nutrition-marketing-finance approach, coupled with strong support to transform the individual agency of women and their enabling environment, including gender norms, attitudes and behaviors. By organizing rural women and men with young children in Growing Futures Clubs (GFCs), each with an average of 30 household into three-year cycles, the project reaches a total number of direct rural beneficiaries including at least 9,612 women, 7,560 young children, and 5,735 men, with large numbers of indirect rural beneficiaries and marketing efforts reaching at least 40,000 urban consumers with more nutritious foods.

Support Sustainable

Farming

The goal is to supply seeds and promote improved climate-smart agronomic and post-harvest practices for vitamin A rich orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP), calcium rich moringa and amaranth leaves, vitamin C rich papaya fruit, protein-rich soybean or groundnut and B12 and iron- rich cavies. Two new OFSP varieties bred in Northern Ghana for Northern Ghana and released by the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute in collaboration with CIP are examples of key innovations that were introduced.

GROWING Nutritious Crops

Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato

Amaranth / Alefu

Moringa

Pawpaw

Soybean

Groundnut

Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato

Amaranth / Alefu

Moringa

Pawpaw

Soybean

Groundnut

PARTNERS

Our BLOGS

Birhanu B. Temesgen, Project and Marketing Manager (CIP) • b.temesgen@cgiar.org
Behind Modern-City, Tamale – Ghana

© 2025 by GROWING PROJECT

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