Ghana’s delegation delivered a strong performance at the 14th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, advancing the country’s priorities in food security, industrialisation, and inclusive trade.
Led by Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, the delegation successfully defended Ghana’s core interests during the second Ministerial Conference ever hosted on African soil, held from 25th to 29th March 2026.
The Minister and her team actively participated in negotiations and high-level side events, ensuring Ghana’s positions on development, agriculture, fisheries subsidies, and WTO reform were clearly articulated and aligned with the African Group’s stance.
Key priorities for Ghana included securing a permanent solution on public stockholding for food security to stabilise domestic prices and support smallholder farmers, eliminating trade-distorting agricultural subsidies, protecting policy space for industrialisation and economic diversification under WTO reform, introducing fisheries subsidies disciplines that reflect coastal realities, and enhancing African integration into global value chains through agribusiness, digital trade, and sustainable industrial growth.
Madam Ofosu-Adjare, a panellist at the Trade and Investment Session, was a key speaker at the China Investment to Support Africa Industrialisation Conference, signalling Ghana’s readiness to attract quality investments that accelerate industrial transformation and job creation.
The Minister also held bilateral meetings with Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Morocco, and Turkey to discuss market access, agribusiness collaboration, manufacturing partnerships, services trade, and digital economy opportunities.
Ghana’s delegation included senior officials and technical experts from the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, Ministry of Finance, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Trade, Industry and Tourism, Ghana Export Development Authority (GEPA), Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), the Ghana Permanent Mission in Geneva, and the Ghana Borderless Alliance.
Their combined presence ensured Ghana’s positions were robustly defended across all thematic areas, including agriculture, fisheries subsidies, e-commerce, WTO reform, and development.
The MC14 conference, which brought together trade ministers from 166 member states, reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to a fair, rules-based, and development-oriented global trade regime aimed at delivering tangible benefits to its people.
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