Rural Development: Northern Rural Growth Programme The overall goal of the Programme is to achieve sustainable agricultural and rural livelihoods and food security for the rural poor particularly those dependent on marginal lands, rural women and vulnerable groups in Northern Ghana. The specific objective is to develop inclusive and remunerative commodity and food chains to generate agricultural surplus production and orient it towards remunerative markets in southern Ghana and abroad. This will be achieved by scaling up the marketing of northern agricultural products (which at present is characterised by scattered production limited in quantity and quality and unable to respond to market requirements) through building both physical and social links between northern producers and large buyers in the south and abroad. This will be done by developing remunerative and inclusive agricultural commodity and food chains by addressing the whole vertical structure of commodity chains including farmers organisation, agricultural production, processing and marketing and involving other important stakeholders such as traders, processing firms, exporters and institutional buyers. The overall goal of the Programme is to achieve sustainable agricultural and rural livelihoods and food security for the rural poor particularly those dependent on marginal lands, rural women and vulnerable groups in Northern Ghana. The specific objective is to develop inclusive and remunerative commodity and food chains to generate agricultural surplus production and orient it towards remunerative markets in southern Ghana and abroad. This will be achieved by scaling up the marketing of northern agricultural products (which at present is characterised by scattered production limited in quantity and quality and unable to respond to market requirements) through building both physical and social links between northern producers and large buyers in the south and abroad. This will be done by developing remunerative and inclusive agricultural commodity and food chains by addressing the whole vertical structure of commodity chains including farmers organisation, agricultural production, processing and marketing and involving other important stakeholders such as traders, processing firms, exporters and institutional buyers.The overall goal of the Programme is to achieve sustainable agricultural and rural livelihoods and food security for the rural poor particularly those dependent on marginal lands, rural women and vulnerable groups in Northern Ghana. The specific objective is to develop inclusive and remunerative commodity and food chains to generate agricultural surplus production and orient it towards remunerative markets in southern Ghana and abroad. This will be achieved by scaling up the marketing of northern agricultural products (which at present is characterised by scattered production limited in quantity and quality and unable to respond to market requirements) through building both physical and social links between northern producers and large buyers in the south and abroad. This will be done by developing remunerative and inclusive agricultural commodity and food chains by addressing the whole vertical structure of commodity chains including farmers organisation, agricultural production, processing and marketing and involving other important stakeholders such as traders, processing firms, exporters and institutional buyers.