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Development Progress in Ghana

ODI video about Ghana's agricultural growth

Thirty years ago Ghana's economy was on the verge of collapse, today this West African country is on course to become the first in Africa to achieve Millennium Development Goal number one - to halve its poverty and hunger. What has driven this remarkable economic success story? In a word word - agriculture.

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