Under the Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reduction Project (GSLERP), Shea Network Ghana (SNG) in partnership with Global Shea Alliance, (GSA) held a radio discussion at Achubunyo in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savanna Region.
The event took place at the shea nursery established by the SNG partnered by GSA, UNDP, Ghana Forestry Commission, and funded under the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
Discussions centered on identification and protecting of shea seedlings, environmental values of shea trees, by-laws to protect shea trees and negative effects of bush fires on shea trees.
The rests were how to prevent the deforestation of the shea trees, best practices in charcoal collection and alternative fast-growing trees that can be used as firewood/charcoal.
The discussions were aired on PAD FM in Damongo and sought to educate people in the area on how to best protect the shea tree from going into extinct.
Mr. Saani K. Sharifdeen, a project officer at SNG and some beneficiaries under the project, represented the partner organizations on November 3rd, 2023.
SNG in collaboration with the mentioned partners is implementing the Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reduction Project at Jantong Daashe and Achubunyo in the savanna region aimed at raising eleven thousand and seventy-five (11,075) shea seedlings at Jantong Daashe and eighteen thousand and seventy-eight (18,078) at Achubunyo. Our nursery data however shows that as at October, 2023, a total of seven thousand five-hundred and nine-thpousand seedlings have been raised in the two nurseries.
(GSLERP), a five-year climate restoration activity implemented by the Ghana Forestry Commission (FC), with the technical support of the Global Shea Alliance and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and alongside multiple national and local governing institutions, civil society representatives and private sector actors who will meaningfully and effectively participate in its further design, implementation and benefits.
The project will directly strengthen the livelihoods and climate resilience of 100,200 people (78,850 women and 21,350 men). Restoration of trees, decreased deforestation and fire management covering almost 500,000 hectares will indirectly contribute to the retention of soil moisture, the reduction of evapotranspiration and maintenance of soil fertility. These interrelated social and environmental interventions are key.
The project catalyses transformative change across this landscape, attracting significant private sector investment, through the focus of the shea value chain and shea restoration.
GCF funds and co-finance will support women collectors to re-stock 1.75 million trees in the parklands with higher and quicker yielding varieties of shea ensuring future supply, aggregation and direct marketing through performance-based contracts between NGOs who are members of the Global Shea Alliance and women’s groups.
Source: www.sheanetworkghana.org/Adam Abdul-FAtawu Wunizoya,Communications Officer