Agriculture remains a major source of employment in Ghana, but new findings show that job growth is still held back by low productivity, informality and inequality. A recent workshop under the JobAgri project, led by the International Labour Organization, found that most agricultural work is carried out by smallholder families, with limited formal employment and ...

The Macroeconomic Digest Labour Report for May 2024 has showed that employment in the agriculture sector increased by 50% on a long-term basis, from 627,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2011 to 941,000 in the first quarter of this year. In the first quarter of this year, the number of men and women actively ...