Ghana- 1st- Agriculture

CHAPTER 3: BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONAL 

ANALYSIS 

3.2.2 Agriculture Sector 

Agriculture is key to the overall economic growth and development of Ghana. Since 2013, it has consistently contributed about 20 percent of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).³⁵ This sector is estimated to employ about 46 percent of Ghana’s labour force³⁶, most of whom are small landowners engaged mainly in subsistence farming. Some issues identified in this sector are summarized in the table below: 

• Worst forms of child labour 

• Forced labour 

• Compulsory acquisition of farmlands without adequate compensation to land and crop owners 

• Destruction of farmlands due illegal mining (galamsey) activities, commercial activities and urbanization 

• Pollution of water bodies due to illegal mining (galamsey) activities 

• Under scaling of cocoa produce by purchasing clerks and purchasing companies 

• Destruction of farmlands by herdsmen