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Africa: Smallholder Agriculture Transforms Lives of Poor
allAfrica, 23 December 2009
Africa's failure to transform its agriculture sector as rapidly as the rest of the developing world has left an abiding legacy of poverty and hunger. A huge increase in the number… Read more »
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Kenya: Reconstructing Food Security in Africa
allAfrica, 31 October 2009
Kenya 's Rift Valley province is famed for large-scale food production alongside images of dying animals and hungry people. Read more »
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Tanzania: Kikwete Hopeful for Action On Climate Change, Optimistic On Africa's Future
allAfrica, 18 December 2009
Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete recently sat down for an hour-long interview with AllAfrica's Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman at State House in Dar es Salaam. In the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Banking on Agriculture in Kwara
allAfrica, 2 December 2009
The Nigerian state of Kwara has received international attention for its invitation to dispossessed white farmers in Zimbabwe to come to Nigeria. The oil-producing nation -… Read more »
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Africa: New Hope for Africa's Farmers
allAfrica, 23 November 2009
Some 218 million people in Africa struggle with hunger daily – about 30 percent of the continent’s total population, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture… Read more »
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Africa: Climate Change Boosts Need for Policies to Support African Farmers
allAfrica, 13 November 2009
Akin Adesina, vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), talked to AllAfrica about the work of the young, Nairobi-based institution and how its… Read more »