Projects/achievements /areas include

1. Soil amendments/plant nutrition improvement ?Using Farmer To Farmer Extension(F2FE) approach:
Currently CEAL is working with a number of small holder farmers especially youth and women to improve the soil fertility of their farmlands in the West Mamprusi Municipal. West Mamprusi Municipal is one of the poorest in Northern Ghana; it has a population of over 90,000 with over 85% of the people being small holder farmers, they cultivate mai ze, millet, beans varieties and vegetables for both incomes and household food consumption. With average farmland size of 1-4 acres/farmer, the small holder farmer relies on the natural soils as growth medium and with no alternative modern crop production technologies available, farmland soil are now exhausted. This situation is made worst by the climate change impacts, continues cultivating the same piece of land and most recent COVID 19 outbreak. The ultimate result is poor yields, food and income for the farmer households triggering migration of the youth and women in southern Ghana and also to other parts of the world. To improve the situation, CEAL Local Experts are training and supporting Small holder farmers with 6-weeks but rich composting technology using locally available materials alone under the approach (F2FE). In addition the small holder received skills and knowledge in Bio-Chair Preparation and application as part of holistic approach to improve the soil fertility. This activity enables the small holder farmers to respond quickly to anticipated impacts of COVID 19, should there be distortion in the supply chain of critical agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, reduce risk of starvation and increase farmers adaptive capacity to climate change impacts. Finally by converting larger amount of savanna grasses and Agriculture waste into compost, the small holder farmer contributes to reducing wild fires manners and by extension how much CO2 is emission into the atm osphere through this activity. So far a total of 4756 farmers are trained in organic soil amendments measures. Out of this, 2987 farmers covered are male farmers whiles 1,769 are female farmers. Through this activity the small holder farmers are able to improve their soils fertility, reduce pest and manage diseases, increase their maize yields from average of 4 bags to 8-12 bags/acre.

2. Crop-livestock integration technologies -SHFs
It is proven that integrating crops with livestock production is one of best way to go according our local experience. Aside the advantages of generating enough animal droppings for the exhausted small holder farmer farmland fertility improvement, food and incomes through sales, the small holder farmer stance a chance of reducing and balance risks associated with crop failure and also livestock mortality. For these reasons, CEAL is working and supporting 180(F91: M 89) small holder farmers mostly youth and women to diversify and integrate crops and livestock mainly birds and small ruminants into their farming systems. Common livestock include Guinea fowls, local fowls, goats, piggery and sheep. As an agri-business model, our team of experts train and equip farmers with skills and knowledge in livestock?crops integrations processes, Incubator construction/manufacturing, hosing, breeding, organic feed preparation and feeding, organic livestock diseases and pest control. CEAL is developing small hatchery centers in local communities to promote quick access to day olds by the small holder farmer in the Northern Ghana. Additional technologies deployed under this activity is the mobile chicken pens that allows the farmers to rotating and fertilized poor soils directly on the same piece of land. Through this activity, 180 small holder farmers are able to multiply their livestock from average of 3 to 20n in the case of small remnants and 10 to 120 in the case of birds, given women and youth farmers the chance to make additional income to support other household choices.

3. Catfish Fish ?vegetable production technologies
This activity is the first of its kind in the north east region of Ghana. It is a new technology which is being piloted with a number of small holder farmers as part of climate change adaption strategies in the region. The activity trains and supports farmers to integrate Catfish into Vegetable production on the same of piece of land. A total of 10(4M: 6F) farmer households are benefiting from this activity. The small holder farmer is trained in the assembling of mobile fish ponds, fish breeding, stocking, organic feed preparation and feeding regimes, sorting, harvesting, storing and marketing. In addition, the farmer is equipped with skills to convert fish pond residues/waste water into organic folia fertility for her/his vegetable production. The technology of the mobile fishpond allows the farmers to move his pond easily round the field for the purposes of shade, oxygen supply, harvesting and folia fertilizer manufacturing. By this activity CEAL able to support the vulnerable small holder farmer to reduce risk through agriculture production diversifications, increase yields in both fish and crops, improve food and nutrition security and some considerable income.

4. Unground waters, rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation technologies
Extreme weather events such as floods and droughts are making farming difficult for our small holder farmers in the northern Ghana. The small holder farmer requires new technologies and alternative initiatives to augment his or rain-fed agriculture scheme in the Northern Ghana. it is against this background that CEAL and her partner, Pump is Life explore the possibility of underground waters, rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation technologies as means of keeping and sustaining small holder farmer production processes throughout the year. Currently 10 communities with 30 small farmer households are benefiting from activity. This activity seeks to synchronize water supply and drip irrigation with vegetable and animals production backed by micro finance programme as part of increasing communities? resilience to climate change impacts. The activity works with communities and their small holder farmers to installed 30 water supply systems, three rainwater harvesting systems, 30 small drip irrigation systems. The beneficiaries use their water source for domestic purposes and small scale vegetable farming through permaculture designed systems for both farmer household food security and income. Farmers produced vegetable such as okra, tomato, pepper, onions etc under this activity consumed by households and the remaining sold in the market. In addition, neighboring households and to some extend the entire communities depend on the wells for domestic water supply during the lean season

5. Agro ?forestry models
This component of CEAL project activity has three purposes: increasing tree population to support the global climate change mitigation efforts, provide environmental services and also provide economic incomes and food to the small holder farmer households. The small holder farmer is trained and supported to practice three different models of agro forestry schemes depending on land availability, land size, types, ownership and uses of land by the individual beneficiaries. Special models are designed for female enterprising small holder farmer to participate in the implementation. Specifically training skills and knowledge given to farmers include plantation establishment where Farmer households is grouped and trained in tree nursery establishment, planting and Management. The trainings are conducted alongside the practical where farmers are supported to establish one permanent nursery with a total capacity of 200 seedlings per year. Seedlings considered include cashew, mango, moringa and other species of medicinal values and livestock feed so as to promote biodiversity in the community. This is expected to provide fruits, woodlots, herbs; livestock feed and serve as wind bricks against the effects of climate change in the communities when grown. Through this activity, a total of 375 small holder farmers have been supported to integrate different tree species into their farmlands.

6. Developing Local innovations-food and nutrition security
Through a project The Scaling up Local Capacities to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security (SULCI-FaNS), CEAL is working with her partner (ACDEP) and local communities to identify and develop relevant local innovations to support communities Food and Nutrition Security. This activity is aimed at strengthening the innovation capacities of rural communities, particularly of women and to increase local resilience to climate change using farmer led research and participatory innovation development (PID) approaches. Though this activity, 17 local innovations relevant and capable of helping communities and poor households overcoming food, and nutrition and income challenges have been identified for further development. Out of this, 5 key innovations relevant to aiding agro ecology, environment, food process, storage and livestock production have been identified, and being developed through PID processes. The innovators are Issifu Sadia(F): Preparation of livestock feed supplement using local materials, Apana Adibono(F): Preparation of nutritious infant porridge using soybeans, maize, sheanuts and other local ingredients, Lydia Langa(F): Preparation of nutritious walsa and petepete foods from soybeans, maize, groundnuts and other local ingredients, Wuni Mohammed(M): Construction of beehives using local materials, and Imoro Yakubu(M): Preparation of organic pesticides using neem seeds, dawadawa, local soap and other ingredients to control fall army worm. Through this activity, the small holder farmer challenges are solved by other small holder farmer solutions within the communities

7. Last mile emergency relief aid distributions
Over the past 3 years, It been terrible for our small holder farmer household in the West Mamprusi Municipality and Mamprugu Moaduri District of the North East Region of Ghana. Aside the outbreak of COVID 19 with its physical and socio-psychological impacts, late torrential rains inflicted heavy causalities on vulnerable communities in the region with unprecedented floods believed to be direct consequences of climate change impact. The floods destroyed farmers? crop fields, livestock, housing and other community depended infrastructures. CEAL and her development partner ?ELPG/GOAP Netherlands provides a Delivering of Emergency Relief Support services to affected persons as a quick response measure to cushion farmers as part of reducing their suffering. The activity procured and supplied basic necessities such as food staff and building materials to flood victim farmers as first aid to their sufferings. Items procured and distributed as part of relief aids included: Foodstuffs such as maize, rice, cooking oil, salts and Maggi condiment: Building materials such as roofing sheets, roofing nails, and cements and other basic necessities such as Bales of used cloths and sleeping mats. A total of 14 communities benefits from this activity. Out of this, 8 communities came from West Mamprusi Municipal and 6 communities come from Mamprugu Moaduri District in the north east region of Ghana. That activity is deployed to support family farmer household to overcome hunger resulting poor harvest due to floods, draught or any other climate change related disaster in the region. By activity, Estimated over 15,000 farmers benefited-I e With an average household size of 6, a total of over 2500 households benefited with one or more of the following items- maize, rice, cooking oil, salts, and Maggi condiments, Building materials such as roofing sheets, roofing nails, and cements and Other basic necessities such as Bales of used cloths and sleeping mats

8. Natural Resources and environmental Governances
Over the years, CEAL has been working with local communities, youth groups, farmer groups, women groups, traditional authorities, opinion leaders, local Civil Society Groups and local government institution to improve environmental governance and natural resource management in Northern Ghana. Currently CEAL is implementing activity: ie a climate change governance project and is being implemented in Mamprugu Moaduri District and West Mamprusi Municipality, two most hardly hit and impacted by climate change in Northern Ghana. Local governments Authorities (District Assemblies) are preparing their next Medium Term Development Plans, the blue print document, for implementation. In response to this, the proposed project activity sought to build the capacity of vulnerable communities, local CSOs and local government substructures to advocate for responsive and inclusive Climate Change Development Pathways at the local level. Through this activity, series of capacity building workshops are organized to educate stakeholders on Risk, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (RVCA) Tools to enable them participate effectively and mainstream climate change issues into their programmers and projects. District level stakeholders are also trained on climate change, its mitigation and adaptation strategies to enable communities to come out with their own Community Adaptation Plans which eventually fed into the preparation of the Medium Term Development Plans(MTDP).

9. Farmers COVID 19 Education
The issue of COVID 19 was not left out entirely in CEAL activities. CEAL undertook a Corona virus preventive and awareness creation education in 4 communities in the West Mamprusi Municipal. Farmers had basic knowledge in COVID 19 Prevention activities such as maintaining a social distancing of more than 1 meter apart, the use of local soap with hand washing under running water, used of alcohol based hand sanitizers, face mask, sterilization of simple farm implements, other protocols and in recent times sensitizing and encouraging farmers to take the vaccine. In addition, COVID 19 prevention tools such as Veronica Buckets, Liquid Soap, Nose Mask, posters, bucket stands are presented to some selected farming communities.


10. CEAL is leading member of Participatory Guaranteed System (PGS-Ghana). Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) ?locally organic certification program in Ghana. Under PGS, CEAL is the regional leader and has been building capacity of local farmers including those transitioning from conventional to organic for inspections. CEAL also review and organize inspections for certified farmers in Northern Ghana under PGS-Ghana and facilitate PGS-certificate for qualified small holder farmers to enable then access local, regional and national organic markets for their organic farm products in Ghana. By this activity, a total 7 organic farmers have their farmlands and production process certified