The Ghana Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), has called on Ghanaians to support efforts in the fight against poverty during the celebration of World Poverty Day, on Friday, October 16.
The Ghana MDGs/GCAP, a non governmental organisation that works to ensure that government implements the MDGs, said everyone should contribute towards eradicating poverty in the country.
As part of the celebration, Muslims are expected to observe the day during worship on Friday, while Christians observe it on Sunday.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Wednesday, Mr Leonard Ackon, Campaign Secretary of Ghana MDGs/GCAP said the country's food security situation was not encouraging presenting a daunting challenge to the survival of the poor.
He said arable lands, especially in the northern parts of the country, that hitherto provided the food, had been turned into the production of biofuel reducing food production.
Mr Ackon said this was worrying in addition to climate change affecting weather patterns and making the usual planting seasons unreliable adding, poor farmers suffered when there was food shortage.
He pointed out that this threatened the country's resolve to attain the MDGs' target of eradicating extreme hunger by 2015 stressing on the need to use arable lands to cultivate food.
Mr Ackon called on government to show more commitment towards efforts to eradicate poverty in the country.
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