The Role of Biophysical and Technological Approaches Coupled with Political and Socio-Economic Factors in Transforming Ghana's Food Systems.

: Today, food security has been a dominant vocabulary in our terminologies and has now, more than ever also been a topical issue of concern worldwide. Thus the importance of food and its security can neither be underemphasized or divorced from a good quality and standard of living of humans. In Ghana, the adverse effects of undernutrition coupled with changes in our climate are evident on food productions and the patterns of consumption. This has raised calls for the urgent need to review the food systems within the country, essential to ensuring nutrition and food security as well as promoting sustainable development. The characteristics of Ghana’s geography as marked by its climate, agro-ecological differences and differences in economies have all instigated this disparity between the northern and southern part of the country according to reports from the World Food Program in 2016. Additionally, given the changing diets and increased demands for food to meet the rising population within the country, both political and socio-economic factors coupled with the prevailing biophysical and technological considerations have been crucial to transforming the food systems within the country. These are essential considerations to further help bridge the gap in unequal access to safe and nutritious food between the northern and southern regions of the country. The Global food system framework is utilized in analyzing the underpinnings