September 19, 2013
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September 04, 2013
East Africa: Using African Staple Foods to Promote Nutritious Diets
It’s time for East Africans to prepare their palates. Read more »
Africa: How to Achieve a Green Revolution in Africa
Excerpts from the conclusion of the African Agriculture Status Report 2013, published today by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa: Read more »
Africa: Genetically Modified Crops - - 'Fear of the Unknown'
A new report on the state of African agriculture is scathing about opposition to planting genetically-modified crops as a way of growing more food for the continent. Read more »
Africa: Africa Loses As Women Farmers Are Marginalised
The “enormous potential” of small-scale farming to reduce poverty in Africa is not being realised mainly because rural women are neither recognised nor supported enough… Read more »
Africa: New Report Proposes Steps to Boost Food Growing
Africa has 60 percent of the world's arable land and most of its countries depend on farming as the mainstay of their economies, yet productivity is low, the average size of land… Read more »
August 19, 2013
Mali: Can the New President in Mali Sow the Seeds of Change That He Planted?
In Mali, the votes of the run-off have been cast. And in sharp contrast to elections in Africa or even Western democracies, the defeated candidate conceded not by press release or… Read more »
July 12, 2013
Mali: Transforming a Country Through Rice
Aspen Institute 2013 New Voices Fellow Salif Romano Niang is the co-founder and chief impact officer of Malo, a company working to revolutionize the rice industry in Niang's home… Read more »
July 09, 2013
Africa: U.S. Can Invest in Africa On Bipartisan Basis
President Barack Obama's recent visit to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania was written off as a "guilt trip" by some and a "last chance" to salvage an Africa policy legacy by… Read more »
July 01, 2013
Africa: Obama Re-Commits to Promoting Food Security and Health
An excerpt from President Obama's speech at the University of Cape Town: Read more »
June 13, 2013
Nigeria: Knotty Cassava Tubers Can Change a Nation
When Mathius Karoni shops for bread at his local Park 'n' Shop supermarket, he's not thinking about the contribution he's making to Nigeria's national budget or to the farmers… Read more »
June 10, 2013
Africa: Fund Invests to Break 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Mother, Child Death
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) will invest U.S.$787 million (£2.7 billion) to tackle under-nutrition – which underlies over three million… Read more »
June 08, 2013
Africa: Hope for Ending 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Malnutrition, Poverty
Gently laying three-month-old Benjamin on a board to measure his length, Elizabeth Mumo, 28, is grateful for the weekend clinics in a makeshift health facility, run by a retired… Read more »
June 06, 2013
Africa: 'Magnificent Strides' Against Malnutrition
The governments of the UK and Brazil, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), will co-host a high-level international meeting, Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger… Read more »
Africa: Lancet Highlights Importance of Maternal, Child Nutrition
A new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition examines the problems associated with undernutrition and successful interventions. A similar report released by Lancet in 2008… Read more »
May 31, 2013
Nigeria: Lowering Pesticide Exposure Risk With Mobile Phones
John Gushit from the University of Jos' department of science in Nigeria nearly lost his eye when herbicide in a syringe he'd been working with splashed into it. "Only speed saved… Read more »
April 11, 2013
Africa: Poverty No Bar to Fighting Deadly Undernutrition
Some of the world’s poorest countries, including two in sub-Saharan Africa, are showing the greatest political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition, while some of… Read more »
February 28, 2013
Kenya: Women-Led Farm Initiative Aims For Peace, Prosperity
Fear of violence surrounding the upcoming general elections next week has raised anxiety among many Kenyans, but less so for Nyokabi Wamuyu. She is counting on a new initiative in… Read more »
January 29, 2013
Africa: Supporting Women in Agriculture for a 'Prosperous' Africa
The African Union (AU) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but instead of looking back, the current chair, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, seems intent on casting her vision… Read more »
January 14, 2013
Nigeria: Cell Phones for Farmers to Cut Corruption, Deliver Services
Nigeria's agriculture minister today responded to a barrage of criticism about the planned distribution of cell phones to the country's poorest farmers. Read more »
January 10, 2013
Africa: Improve Policies to Fight Hunger - World Bank
Rising global food costs and low African food production require African governments to work to open regional agricultural trade to help improve productivity, says Makhtar Diop,… Read more »
December 11, 2012
Africa: UN Official Calls for Boost to Smallholder Farming
The African Green Revolution Forum held earlier this year in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to put smallholder farmers at the center of the conversation … Read more »
November 30, 2012
Ethiopia: Africa's First Commodity Exchange Revolutionizes Economy
While government leaders, NGOs and corporations devise strategies to churn out more food for future generations, Eleni Gabre-Madhin is taking a different approach. Concerned by a… Read more »
November 12, 2012
Africa: Small Farmers Merit Support - Gates Foundation
Africa's population – in contrast to other regions – is growing significantly younger. How to employ, educate and feed that youth bulge is the topic of a report… Read more »
November 02, 2012
Africa: Farmers Increasingly Seen as 'Engine for Economic Development'
At the recent African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Arusha, Tanzania, fertilizer was a hot topic. Government leaders, policy makers, NGOs and businessmen and women in freshly… Read more »