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Battling through Ghana's lean season

Maxwell Suuk
September 6, 2021

Ghana's "lean season" is particularly bad this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmers are short on cash and food. But fellow farmer Nanleeb Konlan has donated his surplus grain to needy farmers and villagers.

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The World Food Program reports that hunger has increased by 30% since last year, the highest level in a decade. But one man's initiative is helping those struggling. Nanleeb Konlan farms large grain plantations,which he distributes for free to poorer communities in the lean season.

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Maxwell Suuk Maxwell is a DW reporter based in Tamale, Northern Ghana.