Africa: Can Big Business Contribute to Food Security? (guest column)

allAfrica.com, 16 October 2012

Nothing could be more appropriate than the World Food Day focus on cooperatives this year, given the benefits they can have on livelihoods and food security. read more »

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Africa: Agricultural Cooperatives Critical to Fight Hunger

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 16 October 2012

Agricultural cooperatives, already enriching millions of small-scale farmers, could expand and make an even greater contribution against poverty and hunger, if they were given the ... read more »
Africa: Food Crisis Talks - Govts Should Scrap Biofuels, Not Push GM Crops (press release)

Friends of the Earth, 16 October 2012

As Governments gather in Rome today, World Food Day, to discuss the global food price crisis, Friends of the Earth International warns in a new report that agriculture donors such ... read more »
Africa: UN Report Warns Ecological Foundations That Support Food Security, Biodiversity, Are Being Undermined (press release)

United Nations Environment Program, 16 October 2012

The aim of achieving food security across the globe will become increasingly elusive unless countries factor the planet's nature-based services into agricultural and related ... read more »

Petrol and diesel powered pumps give farmers who have no access to electricity an efficient means of lifting water.

Africa: Supporting Rural Women Is Good for the Environment

AlertNet, 15 October 2012

On this International Day of Rural Women, what I am most conscious of is how much rural women do for their families and communities. And how much more we all need to do to support ... read more »
Africa: Empowerment Can Foster Food Security

East African Business Week, 14 October 2012

Solving hunger in Africa will remain a myth if the rural poor and marginalized groups like women, the major players in food production do not have rights over their produce, Civil ... read more »
South Africa: World Food Day - Government's Approach Does Not Address the Causes of Food Insecurity (press release)

Democratic Alliance, 15 October 2012

In South Africa today, approximately 11 million people in 2.8 million households are food insecure - that is at least one in every five South Africans. The Food Security Index ... read more »

Documents

Fisheries, Aquaculture and Food Security in Africa

As Africa's population continues its rapid growth, finding sustainable sources of food will becoming increasingly difficult but the continent's coastline may hold some answers. Read more »
- Africa: Tackle Food Insecurity Through the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Namibia: Fish Farm Fights for Survival
Africa Looks at Food Security Trust Fund

African leaders have discussed the possibility of creating a locally financed fund to support food security by pre-empting crises and improving the continent's response to these ... Read more »
- Africa: Continent Discuss a Food Security Trust Fund
- Rwanda: Adverse Weather Triggers Higher Global Food Prices
Africa's Battle For Food Security

New technologies, coupled with inadequate inputs such as fertilizer and water as well as restrictions on rural infrastructure contributes to the continent's low agricultural ... Read more »
- Africa: Food Security Will Fuel Future Growth - UNDP
- Nigeria: 'Small Scale Farmers Hold Key to Food Security'

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Good point: the importance of partnership - between small-holder farmers, the private sector, commercial farmers and the public sector - is key to making progress. But these partnerships are going to require a leap of faith on both sides of fence, not least by the donors who are going to need to worry less about spending public money on subsidising commercial food production and investors who are going to need to be patient in realising returns.
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