Ghana's Science and Technology Policy Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is to undertake a 12-month program which would enable people to scientifically apply the names to identify living organisms around them in conformity with the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Ghana News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Taxonomy was the science of classification, explained Professor Alfred A. Oteng-Yeboah, deputy director of CSIR in charge of Environment and Health, said in the Ghanaian capital of Accra at the opening of a four-day workshop on "Assessing Taxonomic Needs in Ghana".

Oteng-Yeboah said they had different names of the same objects as they travel through the country. Scientific name application, however, was always more preferred because it had wider application.

He said the project would facilitate the full implementation of Article 7 of the Convention on identification and monitoring and would enhance human resources and capacity development in taxonomy, infrastructural development in taxonomy, increase fundamental data on biological diversity and generate the needed taxonomic data.

He said that would contribute to wealth creation and reduction of poverty because by empowering all stakeholders who used the biological resources, it would serve as basis for decision-making in conservation and sustainable use of biological and genetic resources.

He asked all stakeholders to get involved in the project as it would create jobs and reduce poverty.

Source: Xinhua