Ghana’s Lake Bosomtwe farmers fight pests and lake loss with science and tradition

By: Jahanzeb Hussain Syed, Future of Good

In the thick of the Guinean Forest, Cecilia, Margaret, Comfort, and Josephine walk through their small patches of farmland.

At the heart of Ghana’s central Ashanti region, the forest surrounds the mythical Lake Bosomtwe, one of the six lakes in the world formed by a falling meteorite. More than a million years old, it is the country’s only natural lake and one of the few in West Africa.

The women are farmers belonging to the 20 or so villages around Bosomtwe. They grow okra, cassava, sugarcane, palm oil, plantain, and cacao at a subsistence level… Read more.