GAB Climate Smart

Home
Ghana
Accra
GAB Climate Smart

Website

GAB Climate Smart Investment Ltd is an environmental and agribusiness company based in Ashanti Mampong and Greater Accra.

We provide tailored solutions for sustainability in value chains

30/10/2026

CLICOM Short: Did the dam start the sea eating Keta?

Did the Akosombo Dam start the sea eating Keta?

Almost everyone in Ghana has heard the same explanation: build the dam on the Volta in the 1960s, trap the river's sand, and the sea begins to eat the coast. Yet when you line up maps, satellite images and shoreline surveys from 1913 to 2015 across roughly 90 kilometres of eastern coast, the shoreline at Keta was already retreating decades before the Volta dams were built.

Dams, ports and sea walls still matter. What the century-long record changes is the question: not which single project started everything, but how human works stepped into a coast that was already moving.

CLICOM: learning from climate and conservation history.

30/10/2026

CLICOM Short: When the sea moves, a workplace moves

A coast is a place of work long before it is a line on a map.

For centuries, people along Ghana's shore worked both the open sea and the calmer lagoons behind it. Catching fish is only the first step in feeding people: canoes need a gentle beach to land, processors need space, fuel and water to smoke the catch, and traders need a passable road. Inland along the Volta, turning a river into a lake brought electricity and a new lake fishery, while also uprooting riverside towns and changing how households earned their keep.

When water and shorelines shift, it is never just land on a map that changes. It is how food reaches the market.

CLICOM: learning from climate and conservation history.

30/10/2026

CLICOM Short: A beach is a moving river of sand

A sandy beach is not a fixed wall of earth. It is a moving river of sand.

Along the Gulf of Guinea, waves arrive at an angle and push sand sideways along the coast day after day. A beach stays wide only when the sand arriving matches the sand carried onward. When we build a harbour breakwater or a stone groin in moving water, it can trap sand and hold the line in front of the houses it guards, while leaving the shore right next door hungrier for sand than before.

Moving water and sand never stop at a project fence. Whatever we build on land or sea, we have to ask what happens next door.

CLICOM: learning from climate and conservation history.

30/10/2026

CLICOM Short: Why two snapshots do not make a trend

Why two snapshots can fool you on a changing coast.

One photograph of a battered building shows real damage, yet it cannot measure a century-long trend. An old map line, a satellite image at high tide and a survey after a storm are not measuring the same thing unless we match them carefully. And whether on the coast or inland, the hardest surprises usually arrive from outside a single site boundary, in where water and soil come from and where they go next.

At GAB Climate Smart Investments Ltd, our inland farm at Aframso does not solve coastal erosion, yet it shares the same rule: never mistake one snapshot for the whole story.

CLICOM: learning from climate and conservation history.

30/10/2026

Same bill. Two different numbers.

Your electricity bill carries a cost and a quantity. A carbon estimate needs the quantity in kWh, not the amount paid.

Efficiency Lite uses resource quantities to prepare a screening-level footprint estimate. Match each figure to the right unit and reporting period before you start.

Explore https://efficiency.gabclimatesmart.com.
Formal reporting needs verified data and factors.

GAB Climate Smart Investments Ltd

30/10/2026

Find the institution. Check the next step.

A map can show you where to start a conversation.

ResourceMap Lite lets you explore CREMAs, government agencies and other natural-resource institutions in Ghana. Use a listing as a starting point, then check the organisation's current role and details directly.

Explore https://resourcemap.gabclimatesmart.com.
For project-specific scoping, contact [email protected].

GAB Climate Smart Investments Ltd

30/10/2026

Need cassava for processing?

Need cassava for processing?

Tell us the volume you need, your root specification, processing location and preferred collection window.

Our cassava is harvested against orders. Get in touch to discuss availability, pricing and collection.

Send your requirements to [email protected].

GAB Climate Smart Investments Ltd

30/10/2026

Who is the crop plan for?

An outgrower programme needs a route from the field to the intended market.

Before the crop plan is fixed, connect three questions: What is the crop for? Which requirements matter? When is it needed?

GAB supports agribusiness advisory and outgrower programme design. To discuss your programme, contact [email protected].

GAB Climate Smart Investments Ltd

29/10/2026

CLICOM Short: A lake that remembers the rain

There is a lake in Ashanti that remembers the rain.

Lake Bosumtwi sits in a round crater with no river flowing out, so it rises in good rainy years and shrinks in dry ones. Every year a thin layer of mud settles on its floor, and together those layers keep a diary of West Africa's rains going back three thousand years.

That diary carries a warning: our droughts have not only come as single bad years. At times they have settled in for decades.

CLICOM: learning from climate and conservation history.

29/10/2026

CLICOM Short: Ghana is named after a place it never was

Ghana is named after a place it never was.

When the Gold Coast became independent in 1957, it took the name of the old Ghana Empire. But that empire lay far to the northwest, in the dry Sahel, in lands that are now Mauritania and Mali.

So when a lake in Ashanti keeps a three-thousand-year record of the rain, it tells the story of our own forests and farms, not of that empire's kings.

CLICOM: learning from climate and conservation history.

Address

5 Lagoon Close, Tse Addo
Accra
EX2VR

Website

http://www.gabclimatesmart.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when GAB Climate Smart posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.