One of the most persistent myths about nutrition is that eating well is a luxury reserved for higher incomes. That healthy means imported, packaged, and pricey. The reality in Ghana tells a very different story. Good nutrition starts with local food Ghana is rich in nutrient-dense foods that are grown here and sold in markets…
The recent floods across parts of Ghana have disrupted lives, displaced families, and damaged homes and livelihoods. While rescue efforts and rebuilding understandably take centre stage, another urgent issue deserves equal attention, nutrition and food safety, both during the flood and long after the water recedes. Floods contaminate water sources, destroy crops, interrupt food supplies,…
Ghana has nutrition policies. Ghana has nutrition targets. Ghana has nutrition programmes spread across multiple ministries and dozens of implementing partners. What Ghana does not have is a single, empowered body responsible for leading, coordinating, and holding all this together. That is the gap a National Nutrition Council would fill, and stakeholders are calling for…
As part of activities under the Nourish Ghana Project, a media engagement segment was featured on the Breakfast Show on Ghana Television (GTV) to spotlight the critical issue of malnutrition in Ghana and the transformative role the media can play in addressing it. Representing Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) on the program was Ms. Rebbeca…
Ghana’s fight against malnutrition is no longer an abstract policy debate, it is about the height of the child in Tamale whose growth has stalled, the anaemic mother in Mamprobi who struggles through her market day, and the fast-growing tide of obesity that sneaks up on urban families. Recognising this urgency, WOMEC, backed by the…