Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa – Agrihouse Foundation

Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa’s Profile

Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa is a tireless and leading advocate for the development of agriculture in Ghana, recognized for her sustained work in advancing inclusive agriculture, farmer empowerment, and value chain growth.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, where she works with farmers, women, youth, rural communities, farmers with disabilities, beginner and emerging agribusinesses to strengthen livelihoods and build resilient agricultural systems.

Her relentless efforts have earned global recognition, including the Rally Mulheres do Agro Ambassador Award in Brazil, Campania Mater Recognition in Salerno, Italy, reflecting her contributions in transforming agriculture into a space of innovation, dignity, shared progress and social justice and the 2024 Agrifood future Prize, celebrating her consistency, agribusiness interventions, her leadership and innovative approaches to shaping the future of food.

Alberta has initiated and led several nationally impactful agricultural platforms and interventions, focused on agri-trade expansion, capacity building, agribusiness leadership development, investment, market access, and innovation within the sector.

Some of her initiatives and interventions includes:

The Livestock, Poultry and Fisheries Training & Tradeshow (LiPF),
The Ghana Agrochemical Crop protection Exhibitions,
The Agricultural Students Career Guidance and Mentorship dialogue Bootcamp,
One household-one garden initiative,
Boost to Bloom project,
The monthly Agri-woman Market Place.
The monthly Agribusiness Beginner Executive Masterclass
The AgriWatch News Portal.
The Monthly Agricultural Capacity Building Roadshow (The Possible project, which she co-initiated with Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, to provide free training, with snail, rabbit and mushroom starter packs)
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The Gathering of the Royals
The Women in Food and Agricultural Leadership Training Forum (WOFAGRIC)
The Gold in the Soil Awards
The Ghana Chicken Festival, now the Ghana Poultry Day
The Preharvest Agribusiness Exhibitions and Conference Event
The 1 household, 1 garden project (1h,1g)

Among other key impacts, her projects/interventions have supported in:

Providing household food security, enhancing nutrition, through training and equipping over 6000 women farmers and persons with disabilities, in establishing vegetable backyard gardens.
Providing long-term market opportunities to over 297,000 farmers, processors and agribusinesses, in the northern part of the country and beyond.
Boosted the capacity of farmer-based organizations, farmer groups, smallholder farmers, through tailor-module, farmer to farmer training and demonstrations.
Establishing of a Vegetable Training and Demonstration centre in Bamvim, which is continuously training youth, women in seedling and nursery management.
Assisting farmers and 450+ agri-businesses to expand, and create an environment for new partnerships.
Helping farmers adopt best practices for sustainability.
Providing a platform for more than 22,000 commodity buyers to establish business relationships for the marketing of their produce.
Technically and financially, assisting in setting up over 294 businesses by young graduates, through the Agricultural students Career Guidance and Mentorship Dialogue Bootcamp.
Also, her women in food and agric leadership training programme has trained, mentored and empowered over 5000 agro women and women farmers with disabilities from Volta Region, Ashanti Region, Upper East, Upper West Regions, Western North, Western region and Eastern Region respectively. It has also Increased incomes, Increased participation in decision making, Improved status of the women in their communities, Increased savings, ability to pay children’s school fees and other educational expenses,
Ability to meet medical expenses, Increased farm size to get increased income for construction and renovation of their houses, Attraction of enough and appropriate extension services to help them improve both their yields and their incomes.
Through Alberta’s capacity building and support-based programs for women, about 38% of the nominees for the “Gold in the Soil Awards”, have made entries into the National Best Farmers Award Scheme at the district, regional and national levels. About 14 of them have won laurels at the district and regional levels whilst 6 of them picked up awards at the National awards.
Again, her interventions have contributed to strengthen over 5000 women-led agribusinesses across Ghana, formation of strong cooperatives, and motivated a paradigm shift in projecting women achievers in agribusiness.

Through these initiatives, she has provided and continues to provide long-term opportunities for farmers and agribusinesses, strengthened capacities, influenced mindset change, advanced gender inclusivity, promoted women’s participation in agriculture, fostered partnerships across the public and private actors.

She also plays a key role in organizing Ghana’s annual National Farmers’ Day Exhibitions in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

Her impact extends beyond Ghana. She co-founded the Ghana-Nebraska Agribusiness Growth and Trade Relations Chamber.

Alberta is also a World Food Forum Ghana Chapter Founding member and the Ghana National Lead. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Indigenous Poultry Farmers Association and the Blue Food Innovation Hub.

She was nominated in 2025 as a Governing Board member of the GhanaIncentive-based risk sharing system for Agricultural lending – GIRSAL.

She serves on the National Seed System Reset Task Team on the 24-hour Economy, where she leads the Farmer Access and Extension Working Group.

Alberta is also a cattle farmer.

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