Climate Change and Us: Ghana Ground Zero Developing Radio Partners

As women face the worst impacts of climate change, gender inequality is widening in rural and urban Ghana. A team of young Ghanaian journalists and advocates investigate.

Five young Ghanaian journalists and community advocates discuss their discoveries and insights after producing a multi-part series on Ghana's changing climate and how it is impacting society. This is their first time in creating a podcast series and so the experience was completely new to them. Developing Radio Partners and Population Reference Bureau helped the team realize their goal of producing the series.

With plastics now a large part of the climate crisis, can recycling be a solution? The team investigates and discovers that the answer is not a simple yes or no.

In this episode, the team explores how the changing climate is already impacting Ghana. Less land to farm in what was the nation's breadbasket has created a stream of climate change refugees from the north to the south . In addition, sea level rise is also impacting coastal communities of Ghana, destroying livelihoods and causing migration as well.

In this episode, the team looks at how hand pollination is saving Ghana’s cocoa sector from the adverse impacts of erratic weather and disappearing pollinators. But for how long? A team of young Ghanaian reporters and advocates investigate.

This is a six-part series that looks at how climate change is affecting Ghana. It explores the issues of migration, gender equality, economic impact and innovations. The series was produced by a team of young Ghanaian journalists and environmental advocates who were trained by the Washington, DC-based NGO, Developing Radio Partners.