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The Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang is in the United States of America to attend the 2025 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue organised by the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Vice President is expected to deliver a keynote address on Ghana’s efforts in food security, sustainable agriculture, and inclusive agribusiness, and engage with development partners on strengthening collaboration for agricultural transformation.
She will also hold bilateral talks with development partners there and joins a round table discussion on innovation and agricultural transformation.
Her participation in the four-day programme which starts from October 21 to 24, 2025, demonstrates Ghana’s commitment to building resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food systems that contribute to global food security.
At a similar event earlier in October - the 2025 Global Gateway Forum, Prof Opoku-Agyemang said Ghana was clear about moving beyond the export of raw cocoa beans to building a cocoa economy that empowers farmers and creating jobs.
She has therefore asked the European Union sustainable cocoa initiate to be partners to ensure investment in the sector to help improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers.
The Vice President said the country needs structured farming modules that would combine investment with affordable working capital, risk sharing mechanism and technical support that reaches even small rural processors.
She urged the EU Sustainable Cocoa Initiative and the Global Gateway Framework to capitalize on this.
The Vice President noted that new digital traceability systems are being rolled out to ensure transparency, combat child labour and reassure consumers.
