{"id":2928,"date":"2021-08-04T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:17:55","slug":"in-3rd-successful-meeting-ghana-groundnut-group-works-toward-longterm-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/2021\/08\/in-3rd-successful-meeting-ghana-groundnut-group-works-toward-longterm-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"In 3rd successful meeting, Ghana groundnut group works toward longterm sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2021\/08\/20210727_105301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2021\/08\/20210727_105301-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2021\/08\/20210727_105301-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2021\/08\/20210727_105301-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2021\/08\/20210727_105301-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2021\/08\/20210727_105301.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ghana Groundnut Working Group, a gathering of stakeholders from across the peanut value chain, met for the third annual meeting in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the global pandemic more than 50 people attended the two-day event, including participants were from research institutes, universities, the Regional Agricultural Development unit, the Ministry of Health and an NGO (GIZ\/MOAP), as well as farmers, seed producers and aggregators.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers presented the latest information on agronomy, crop protection, economics and health aspects of the peanut value chain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students also shared their work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants agreed that the GGWG should attract more farmers to participate even it will require organisers to solicit funds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was made available via Zoom, a feature that organisers agreed should be promoted in the future to allow those who can\u2019t attend physically to join via the Internet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the way forward with sustainability of the group, we put together a small committee to draft a constitution for the group. This will be the first step in getting us registered,\u201d said Jerry Nboyine a research scientist at CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute who also serves as the leader of the GGWG steering committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Groundnut Working Group, a gathering of stakeholders from across the peanut value chain, met for the third annual meeting in July. Despite the global pandemic more than 50 people attended the two-day event, including participants were from research institutes, universities, the Regional Agricultural Development unit, the Ministry of Health and an NGO (GIZ\/MOAP), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}