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Stakeholders call for inclusion of relevant groups in drafting agric sector policies

The under-performance of the agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa has been attributed largely to the failures in agricultural policies, weak institutions, and poor governance. On the policy front, some stakeholders have bemoaned the lack of input from smallholder farmers and other relevant groups. To cure this, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), has launched a new tool, the Smallholder Voices Portal, an online platform aimed giving all actors in Africa’s agricultural value chain a greater opportunity to join in—and influence—national policy dialogues, by igniting conversations between policymakers and smallholder farmers and other marginalized voices. Taking his turn during the virtual forum to launch the platform, President of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Michael Nyarko Ampem, said the right policies could greatly reduce cost and boost local production. We are asking that we need to develop a policy where we can have a land bank, where we know...