Nearly 26,000 farmers have been forced to evacuate their homes in eastern Ghana at the request of the authorities, due to flooding caused by several days of heavy rain.
Farmers saw their fields completely destroyed and schools closed after the Akosombo and Kpong hydroelectric dams burst their banks.
The worst affected areas are Sogakofe, Sege and Mepe in the Volta region. These submerged towns, home to fishermen and farmers, have been left without water and electricity. The inhabitants have had to be moved to places of refuge.
Paul Martey explains that the rising water "has had disastrous consequences" for his family. "For over a week, we've been unable to do anything about the water," he laments.
Ghana's Minister of Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, has ordered $40 million in World Bank funding for farmers in the Volta region who lost their farmland when the Akosombo dam overflowed.
According to Mr Acheampong, these funds will help to restore the livelihoods of the worst affected farmers.
Speaking at the launch of the "Youth In Agriculture" initiative as part of the Youth Employment Agency's employment module, Mr Acheampong said that farmers would be well looked after.
"To our friends, brothers and families in the Volta and eastern part of the Akosombo Dam trajectory, we have all witnessed the devastation resulting from the necessary action that the Volta River Authority had to take to save the Akosombo Dam. As a result, many farmers have been affected and many have seen their crops completely wiped out".
"I have ordered that, because of this emergency, $40 million of the World Bank-funded African Food Systems Resilience Programme be restructured to restore farmers whose farms have been wiped out as a result of the necessary action taken by the Volta River Authority to save us all.
