Centre for Women and Food Security-Ghana

04/04/2026

🌍 Women Leading Climate Resilience in Ghana

As part of our call for Op-Eds on , we spotlight the work of Dorothy Kamasa, Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Women and Food Security-Ghana.

Through locally driven initiatives, she empowers indigenous and rural women to strengthen climate resilience, promote sustainable land management, and improve community livelihoods across Ghana.

Her work highlights the vital role women play in building resilient and sustainable communities.

📖 Read about the initiative below



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03/11/2025

At CeWaFS-Ghana, we believe women are not just participants in agriculture, they are leaders of climate solutions.
Women smallholder farmers are the stewards of our soils, seeds, and ecosystems. When they have access to resources, leadership opportunities, and equitable land rights, they can drive transformative change in food systems and climate resilience.
As our Founder and Executive Director, Kamasa Dorothy works directly with Indigenous women farmers to advance climate-smart agriculture, land restoration, and food sovereignty. Through our participatory learning approach, we blend traditional ecological knowledge with sustainable farming practices, nurture women’s leadership, and support inclusive land governance that ensures Indigenous women’s voices are heard in climate and development decision-making spaces.
Our work goes beyond training; it changes power structures.
Women in our communities are:
and leading agricultural cooperatives
riverbanks and protecting watersheds
community-led irrigation systems
land-use rights with traditional authorities
directly in local climate governance platforms
This is women-led climate governance in action.
We are demonstrating that when women lead, entire communities become more resilient, food secure, and ecologically restored.
Women are not beneficiaries. They are architects of climate-resilient futures.

30/06/2025

30/06/2025

27/10/2024

Solid waste especially plastics finds its way into Agricultural lands negatively affecting microbial activities, impacting soil health.

Diverting solid waste from the environment is a holistic approach to boosting ecosystem services, and enhancing sustainable food systems.

UN Environment Programme Climate Action