November 02, 2009
Africa: Food for Thought on Food Security [guest column]
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This year, the world will witness a new record, albeit a devastating one: for the first time in our history, over one billion people in the world suffer from daily hunger.… Read more »
Sudan: Tensions Grow Over North-South Unity
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Tensions are rising in Sudan as the country prepares for elections in 2010 and a subsequent referendum over whether the people of South Sudan want to break away and become an… Read more »
November 01, 2009
Kenya: Widows Support Themselves Selling Maize to World Food Programme
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Widows are often looked down on and pitied in Kenya. But the widows in the village of Angata Barakoi in the Transmara area of Kenya were determined to help each other and make a… Read more »
Africa: Trees Can Increase Farm Yields and Transform Agriculture Says Agroforestry Group [interview]
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Headquartered in Nairobi Kenya and working across sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Latin America and Asia, the World Agroforestry Centre aims to enhance soil fertility and the… Read more »
October 31, 2009
Niger: Tree Planting Heroine Helps Reclaim the Desert [interview]
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Sakina Mati is a farmer and community leader in the village of Guidan Batoye, in the Maradi Region of Niger. She began to manage the regeneration of useful trees on her fields 15… Read more »
Burkina Faso: New Farming Technique Brings Trees Back to the Sahel [interview]
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Yacouba Savadogo is a farmer, community leader and natural resource innovator from the village of Gourma, in the Yatenga Province of Burkina Faso. Yacouba began to experiment with… Read more »
Africa: Women Are Behind 80 Percent of Continent's Food Production [interview]
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) considers gender mainstreaming, or involving women in farming development efforts, an essential component of its efforts… Read more »
South Africa: Women Farmers Play Vital Role in Food Security
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In South Africa's not-too-distant past, the image of a commercial farmer usually brought to mind middle-aged white men in short pants or, in a few cases, black farmers struggling… Read more »
Kenya: Reconstructing Food Security in Africa [blog]
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Kenya 's Rift Valley province is famed for large-scale food production alongside images of dying animals and hungry people. Read more »
South Africa: Snapshot Descriptions of Woman Farmers
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Below are snapshots of some of South Africa's successful women farmers. All of them are recent winners of a female farmer competition run by provincial departments of agriculture,… Read more »
October 30, 2009
South Africa: Land Reform Moves Slowly in Post-Apartheid Era
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Land reform has always been a popular part of political rhetoric for a democratic South Africa, but agrarian transformation has not been realized in the post-apartheid era. The… Read more »
Africa: FAO Launches Key Land Initiatives
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People's rights to work the land – an indispensable pre-condition for food security in Africa – are the subject of two key initiatives by international agencies working… Read more »
Africa: French Court Blocks Probe of Three Presidents
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A French Appeal Court in Paris yesterday rejected the demand of the Transparency International (TI) organization for leave to open a probe in France into the estates of three… Read more »
South Africa: Critics Welcome Rejection of Genetically Altered Potato [interview]
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The recent rejection of a permit application for the general release in South Africa of a potato that has been genetically altered has received a standing ovation from the African… Read more »
South Africa: New Potatoes - Blessing Or Curse?
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The debate around genetically modified (GM) crops in South Africa has flared up once again after the rejection of a permit application for the general release of the SpuntaG2, a… Read more »
Mauritania: Desert Locusts Threaten Region
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A potentially serious infestation of desert locusts has broken out in Mauritania, but experts are hopeful that quickly implemented countermeasures will prevent a repeat of… Read more »
South Africa: Urban Subsistence Farmers Spread Wings
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A project which began as an effort to empower citizens of Cape Town's poorest neighbourhoods to grow their own food has mushroomed into a scheme for selling vegetables for the… Read more »
October 29, 2009
Africa: Agriculture Group Finds Targeting Women Improves Food Security, Family Incomes [interview]
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Gender inequalities are a key impediment to achieving food security in many households in sub-Saharan Africa. Although women do most of the farming on the continent, growing an… Read more »
Africa: Food Crisis Forces Changes on GM Crops [interview]
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Daniel Mataruka is director of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) in Nairobi. The non-profit organization aims to improve the lives and agricultural output of… Read more »
Africa: Digital Soil Mapping Helps Continent's Farmers [interview]
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Digital mapping has been used in the West to ascertain soil variation and help determine why some crops perform better than others in particular regions. In Africa, digital… Read more »
October 28, 2009
Somalia: Piracy Surges in Indian Ocean
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European Union (EU) naval forces seized seven suspected Somali pirates on Tuesday after an attack on a French fishing vessel east of Mogadishu. Read more »
October 27, 2009
Guinea: Europe Imposes Sanctions on Junta
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The European Union (EU) has placed an arms embargo on Guinea and banned members of its military junta from travelling to Europe. Read more »
Liberia: Post-War Farmers Persevere Amid Multiple Challenges
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Nathaniel Ziayee and his family live in a single-room hut built with mud bricks and palm branches, held firmly together by sticks cut from the bushes that surround their small… Read more »
Africa: Green Revolution Requires Supporting Farmers, Says Agriculture Expert [interview]
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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 »
Africa: New Beginnings, Enduring Challenges: American Foreign Policy to Continent from Kennedy to Obama [document]
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Following is the text of the first Senator Edward Kennedy Memorial Lecture delivered at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa Read more »
