“Bridging the Volta Infrastructure & Poverty Gap: The Role of Stakeholders” by Leslie Mensah Tamakloe outlines a transformative roadmap to unlock the Volta Region’s BILLION US DOLLARS economic potential. It highlights the stark poverty and infrastructure gaps—small subsistence farms, poor roads, limited access to finance—and proposes a Marshall Plan-style intervention to drive exports, double farm yields, and create over 200,000 new farmers and 1 million jobs through irrigated farmland and several other interventions in the Volta Basin
Key proposals include:
- Export-oriented agriculture (cashew, almonds, cocoa, shrimp, fish) with processing zones near Ho Airport and major roads.
- Grassroots entrepreneurship and mechanised farming to lift smallholders out of poverty.
- Upgraded roads, bridges, and Ho Airport for cargo and tourism.
- Eco-tourism and industrial zones to diversify income.
- Collaboration among traditional leaders, government, businesses, and citizens to ensure accountability and shared prosperity.
Framed as a billion-dollar regional strategy, the plan urges a collective push to transform Volta into a food basket for West Africa and a hub for exports, jobs, and inclusive growth.
