# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/owusu-afriyie-akoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:27:08.843Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/owusu-afriyie-akoto"
name: "Owusu Afriyie Akoto"
slug: "owusu-afriyie-akoto"
description: "Owusu Afriyie Akoto is a Ghanaian agricultural economist and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and was a Member of Parliament for the Kwadaso Constituency from 2009 to 2017. He was a cabinet minister in the Nana Akufo-Addo administration and served as Minister of Food and Agriculture of Ghana. He resigned on 10 January 2023 to focus on his presidential ambition. He holds MSc and PHD Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Cambridge, England."
tagline: "Ghanaian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Owusu_Afriyie_Akoto_2019_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.44
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.738733333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اوسو افرى اكوتو"
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    title: "Owusu Afriyie Akoto"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owusu_Afriyie_Akoto"
    title: "Owusu Afriyie Akoto"
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    title: "Owusu Afriyie Akoto"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owusu_Afriyie_Akoto"
    title: "Owusu Afriyie Akoto"
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    title: "Owusu Afriyie Akoto"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31718297"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump