Walewale Climate-Smart Rice Milling Project
This project builds a resilient, circular agricultural ecosystem in Northern Ghana by financing a modern local rice mill and equipping smallholder farmers with climate-smart practices to eliminate waste, secure regional food sovereignty, and drive inclusive economic empowerment.
Project category
Supply chain project
Project type
Supply chain
Country
Ghana
Lifetime
3 years
Community benefits
Through FarmerTribe’s Farm Academy, we empower local growers with hands-on training and comprehensive advisory services to professionalise their farm management.
By facilitating access to pest and drought-resistant crop varieties specifically suited to the region's changing rainfall patterns, we help farmers maximise their agricultural capacity. This targeted support enables them to use water, land, and organic fertilisers with precision, securing their livelihoods and producing more food on less land.
Environmental benefits
Establishing our milling facility directly within the production hub drastically cuts transport-related emissions of raw materials to distant industrial centres and builds a more localised, sustainable supply chain.
We actively protect local biodiversity by promoting climate-smart techniques that replace harmful practices, such as seasonal burning and indiscriminate tree clearing, with sustainable soil conservation and efficient irrigation. We also implement responsible resource use that minimises chemical interventions and repurposes agricultural by-products (such as rice husks), which significantly reduces methane emissions and prevents natural habitat degradation.
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