Market Systems and Resilience Activity

(Ghana): Agriculture accounts for about 22 percent of Ghana's gross domestic product (GDP) and employs more than half the labor force. Despite the sector's immense contribution to Ghana's economy, its advancement is hampered due to myriad factors. Infrastructure, including processing, storage, and marketing facilities, are rudimentary. Droughts, floods, and the erosion have contributed to low agricultural productivity and fragile market systems. Ghana's markets remain undiversified and vulnerable to external shocks, such as price and production fluctuations, climate and health risks, and pests and diseases. Ghana's market systems have weak regulations, inadequate coordination among market actors, inadequate private sector engagement in input distribution networks, lack of product diversity, insufficient market size, lack of quality standards, and limited financial services for micro, insufficient government capacity, lack of finance and skilled labor for micro, small, and medium enterprises.USAID will use FY 2022 funds to address challenges in Ghana's market systems. The Activity will aim to increase inclusive agriculture-led economic growth in northern Ghana through stronger and

Source: IATI activity description, US-GOV-1-72064122C00001 (2022). The source's own text.