Ghana’s objectives to raise agricultural production and achieve national food self-sufficiency are central to national development goals. In the past, agricultural growth has been driven largely by expansion, but intensification is the preferred pathway as land becomes scarcer. Agricultural production targets may impact broader policy goals such as the adoption of climate smart agriculture, reducing the expansion of farmland, plantation development and dietary diversity. This briefing focuses in particular on trade-offs, as well as synergies, between policy objectives for agricultural production, forest conservation and environmental restoration targets which have, to date, been largely overlooked, leading to some significant policy disconnects that will need to be addressed in the near future.