George Danso and Pay Drechsel

In: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture

While many agricultural activities in Ghana are financed either by the government or by external aid, the urban farmers producing for the market usually have to rely on own funds to start their businesses, or rely on credit from market women for the purchase of inputs. Some urban farmers do not rely on any support and bypass this dependency. An example of this is a group of seven farmers in Accra described here.