The 2023 economic crisis in Ghana has challenged its status as a beacon for economic development in Africa, and refocused attention back onto rising inequality in the country.

But even as the viability of the country’s ‘Beyond Aid’ agenda comes under question, environmental concerns continue to escalate. Gold and cocoa, historically the leading exports, are subjects of contemporary focus, as pests, diseases and soil exhaustion increasingly beset cocoa, and the small-scale mining sector is expanding rapidly, risking further soil and water pollution, subsidence and erosion.

The Ghana Development Hub is working to understand these and other complex issues and to help influence policy and practitioner responses through knowledge sharing, mutual learning and collaboration.