Climate Change and Us: Ghana Ground Zero

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.

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.

This six-part series that was produced in Ghana by a team of journalists and environmental advocates looks at how the country is being affected by climate change. In this episode, the team introduces the topics which focus on migration, cocoa production, recycling and more.  The team was trained by the Washington, DC-based organization, Developing Radio Partners.