Since 2010, Trade AID has partnered with Canadian Feed The Children as part of the CHANGE project. The project works to:
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Train smallhoder farmers on climate-smart agriculture
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Increase womens participation in agricultual and alternative livelihoods
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Build awareness and resilience to climate change impacts
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Improve incomes, crop yields and food security for men, women and children in Northern Ghana for the long term.
Find out more about the project on the Canadian Feed The Children website >
Basket weaving has always been a major industry in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The Upper East Region only has one rainy season per year and as a result, people are often not able to support themselves through agricultural means alone.
This vital project ran from April to December 2016. The project had Two main Aims, firstly to increase voter turnout and lastly to reduce the number of spoilt ballot papers. Both these objectives were achieved through education and demonstration.
The INCOME project was set up in January 2013 in partnership with International Service, a UK based charity. The project is carried out by UK and Ghanaian volunteers and overseen by a team leader. The goal is to enable those working within the craft sector of Bolgatanga to establish sustainable and more profitable enterprises.
The Change Project
One core objective of TradeAID is to join in the campaign for fairer trade and to contribute to the realization of the right to food for all people at all times. This objective forms the core of our advocacy work.
The Integrated Community Empowerment Programme (INCOME) project is committed to the goal of it’s key partner – Canadian Feed the Children (CFTC) – to work towards ‘[a] world in which children thrive, free from poverty’.
Trade in Focus (TIF)
CFTC Income Project
Climate Change Adaptation in northern Ghana Enhanced. This seeks to equip Smallholder Women and Men farmers with improved adaptive capacity and increased resilience to the impact of climate change on agriculture, food security and livelihoods​.​
Energy, Poverty, and Gender in Agro-Processing Project. The overall goal is to provide Improved Cook Stoves to Small-Marginalised Industries involved in agro-Processing to reduce fuel wood consumption, increased income and improve the working environment.
Social Enterprise Initiatives - PROCOM
Our work looks at rice is at supporting farmers increase productivity. One aspect of this rice area is improving the quality of locally milled rice for consumption. ​
Farmers Credit Fund
TradeAid has worked for many years in northern Ghana where accessing financial support for agricultural work has been a nightmare for many farmers and small-scale producers. The aim of this project is to provide personalised financial services for small, independent businesses such as farmers.
