Our mission is to enhance the skills, knowledge, and professional contributions of agricultural economists who help society solve agricultural, developmental, and food security trials in achieving a thriving, sustainable and well-nourished Ghana.
Our vision is to lead and support capacity building activities of our members, and contribute to policy, research and development on Ghana agriculture. This is a responsibility we undertake with a strong sense of purpose, direction and determination to work with all members and affiliate organizations to make this association a world-class professional association – and one that is relevant in spearheading major development issues that affect agriculture in Ghana.
The key objectives of the Association are to:
The Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists (GAAE) is a membership organization of leading scholars and students, policy makers, development workers, development partners, as well as professionals in industry and NGOs. As a non-profit association, GAAE serves as a catalyst and seeks to be clearinghouse for research and innovation with the aim of exerting influence that strengthens ties between stakeholders and advances the agricultural sector in Ghana and Africa in particular, and the world as a whole. It seeks to serve the professional interests of its members who work in agriculture and broadly related fields by promoting teaching, research and scholarship that benefit GAAE members and their institutions, ultimately aimed at improving the productivity of each sector across the entire agricultural value chain in Ghana and beyond.
The work of GAAE addresses a broad range of topics, such as the economics of agriculture, food security, agribusiness, rural development policy, national and regional development issues, resources and environmental. GAAE was founded in August, 2007 in Ghana and formally registered at the registrar general’s office as a non-profit association. GAAE has over the years registered steady membership growth.
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The Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists (GAAE) is a nonprofit association, serving the professional interests of its members, working in agricultural and broadly related fields of development economics. Our members are professionals working in academic and/or government, and engage in a variety of teaching, research, and outreach activities.
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
