It is now three decades since Ethiopia experienced the infamous famine that cost the lives of more than a million people. The tragedy prompted the BBC's Michael Buerk to describe ... Read more »
Creative ways to engage, empower, and benefit both women and men at every stage need to be built into development research initiatives, say the IDRC and Canada's department of ... Read more »
The UN say that despite some political and security gains, the humanitarian situation in the country has deteriorated, with more than three million people now in need of ... Read more »
Senegal's institute for food tech trains women and farmers to add value to their products and earn a better living, writes SciDev.Net. Read more »
African ministers at the Food and Agriculture Organization meeting on Rome say, wealthy countries are still subsidising their farmers and this undermines market access for some of ... Read more »
The 2014 Miss Uganda pageant is particularly trying to recruit women aged between 18 and 25 into farming. There's also a new, unlikely sponsor: the Ugandan army, writes InterPress ... Read more »
More than 800 million people - or one in every nine on the planet - suffer from hunger, but a new joint UN agency report stated that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the ... Read more »
The National Drought Management Authority has raised a red flag in Mandera county following the prolonged lack of rains in the region. Read more »
A report by the parliamentary committee on Science and Technology has advised against the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill, which seeks to regulate research and ... Read more »
The agriculture sector is more effective than the oil and gas sectors not only at creating jobs but boosting growth, says the Africa Progress Panel and Sipho Moyo of One at the ... Read more »
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