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Composting service for peasant farmers in Ghana
A project from DeCo! in Tamale, Ghana
With your contribution you buy left-over biomass from local people in villages around Tamale. DeCo! composts this biomass to an organic fertilizer which is used by local farmers. DeCo! employs only local people and operates as a non-profit business.
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About this project
Chris S. from DeCo! is responsible for this project
Farmers in the Savanna Region of Ghana (North of Ghana) face severe soil degradation due to an insufficient application of organic matter to the soil. The consequences are lower yields which cause food shortages and food insecurity.
Composting is widely seen as the best solution to increase soil quality and reduce soil degradation. However, numerous attempts to encourage farmers to compost by themselves failed since the process involves a lot of work before the first benefits are seen and knowledge to produce compost is hard to transfer to every single farmer.
DeCo! is a registered NGO, which is convinced of the benefits of compost and solves the named problems by providing a composting service to smallholder farmers. People in the villages sell the collected biomass to DeCo!. At a decentralized composting plant the biomass of 3 to 6 surrounding villages is gathered and composted. Deco! employs only local people who have no alternative work during dry season. Finally, the compost is offered to local farmers which apply it before the sowing period.
With your contribution you support the pilot phase of the project and help to:
- reduce soil degradation
- create local unskilled jobs
- improve food security
- reduce GHG emissions (from a landfill in Tamale)
- support a non-profit social business during its starting period
After the pilot phase (2010/2011) DeCo! will be self-sustaining by investing all revenues in new compost production. The overall objective is to have a closed system and a durable sustainable project which can be easily scaled up to other regions.
Composting is widely seen as the best solution to increase soil quality and reduce soil degradation. However, numerous attempts to encourage farmers to compost by themselves failed since the process involves a lot of work before the first benefits are seen and knowledge to produce compost is hard to transfer to every single farmer.
DeCo! is a registered NGO, which is convinced of the benefits of compost and solves the named problems by providing a composting service to smallholder farmers. People in the villages sell the collected biomass to DeCo!. At a decentralized composting plant the biomass of 3 to 6 surrounding villages is gathered and composted. Deco! employs only local people who have no alternative work during dry season. Finally, the compost is offered to local farmers which apply it before the sowing period.
With your contribution you support the pilot phase of the project and help to:
- reduce soil degradation
- create local unskilled jobs
- improve food security
- reduce GHG emissions (from a landfill in Tamale)
- support a non-profit social business during its starting period
After the pilot phase (2010/2011) DeCo! will be self-sustaining by investing all revenues in new compost production. The overall objective is to have a closed system and a durable sustainable project which can be easily scaled up to other regions.
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