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Africa: Investing in Resilience of Smallholder Farming 'Essential'
allAfrica, 19 May 2014
The world is home to 500 million smallholder family farms generating up to 80 percent of the food consumed by developing world, according to Dr. Kanayo F. Nwaze, President of the… Read more »
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Africa: African Awakening Will Avert Future Food Crises
allAfrica, 15 May 2014
Thirty years on from a famine that claimed more than a million lives, Ethiopia is making great strides towards food security. And though progress across the continent is uneven,… Read more »
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Africa: African Smallholder Farm Families Have Lost the Elasticity to Bounce Back
CGIAR, 15 May 2014
Building resilience on Africa's small farms starts with people and investing in their capacity to bounce back after a shock. These shocks could be external, such as droughts and… Read more »
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Africa: G8 and FAO Open Agriculture Projects Set to Join Forces
SciDev.Net, 14 May 2014
Interest in ensuring the openness of agricultural and nutritional data is gaining momentum and two major initiatives working to facilitate their accessibility are considering… Read more »
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Tanzania: Crop Price Buffer Fund Planned
Daily News, 15 May 2014
THE government is establishing a Crop Price Stabilisation Fund to insulate farmers from fluctuations in the world market prices. Read more »
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South Africa: R60 Million Centre to Train 'New Generation of Black Farmers'
SA Info, 14 May 2014
Construction work has begun on a R60-million multi-purpose training and development centre at the Agricultural Research Council in Roodeplaat, Pretoria. The facility will boost the… Read more »
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Africa: Researchers Inventing Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea for Africa
Daily Trust, 15 May 2014
Cowpea, popularly called beans in Nigeria, is one of the country's important food crops massively destroyed by a pest called pod borer or Maruca, which damage cowpea pods on farm… Read more »
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Africa: Building Resilience Tops Agenda At Global Conference in Ethiopia
IFPRI, 13 May 2014
Poor countries and vulnerable people are facing a barrage of shocks: economic shocks such as volatile food prices and financial crises; environmental shocks and natural disasters… Read more »
Building Resilience and Food Security in Africa
Food sector experts have gathered in Addis Ababa to discuss building strong institutions and incorporating resilience into the post-2015 agenda.
Dwindling land access in Ethiopia is a critical issue for 80 percent of the population who make a living as small farmers.
