The World Food Program (WFP) is supporting agro-processors and other agriculture value chain players to take advantage of opportunities in the agro sector to be globally competitive.
The organization has reiterated its commitment to Ghana to help develop a resilient economy that impacts zero hunger with two industrial agro-processors benefitting from the World Food Programme initiative.
“Our aim is to assist and provide technical guidance to agro-processors, smallholder farmers, and stakeholders in the agricultural value chain to take advantage of the opportunities inherent in the agro sector and global market for improved livelihood,” the Representative and Country Director, WFP, Barbara Tulu Clemens, stated.
Premium Foods, one of the agro-processors, qualified as a manufacturer and supplier of WFP’s global operations’ SuperCereal, a specialized nutritious food.
Premium Foods was contracted by the World Food Program to provide 1,200 metric tons of SuperCereal to Burkina Faso.
“Canada provided WFP with a CAPEX loan of USD 25 million and a USD 2.5 million investment in premium foods. The money was well spent.
“The orders from WFP will really improve the lives of small-scale farmers who sell their produce to the company through aggregators,” Founder and Managing Director of Premium Foods, Tom Gambrah noted.
The World Food Programme (WFP) undertook an integrated nutrition-food security effort in Ghana (ENVAC) from 2016 to 2021, which was sponsored by Canada.
It sought to promote the intake of specialized nutritional meals in order to improve the nutrition of pregnant and nursing women, adolescent girls, and children.
Agro-processors received financial and technical assistance, and smallholder farmers’ farming practices were enhanced.