Ghana - Special Programme for Food Security Pilot Project

The Special Programme for Food Security Pilot Project (SPFS) is designed to develop pilot schemes to test, demonstrate and adjust agricultural production technologies and new approaches for assisting small farmers to benefit from improved technology on a sustainable basis. The focus of the project should be on testing water control and management technologies. It should evaluate new approaches to enhancing the capacity of farmers to manage their farming enterprises. Considering the mixed farming systems and the interlinked food security issues, the project should test and demonstrate other crops and additional activities to facilitate diversification of farm activities with a particular focus on women’s groups. It comprises three main components, namely: (i) water control, crop intensification and agricultural diversification, (ii) capacity building and strengthening and (iii) project co-ordination and technical support.