South Africa: Farm Workers Paying the Price for Cheap South African Wine

Systembolaget, the Swedish government-owned alcohol monopoly, promises fair conditions - but it also uses its purchasing power to put a downward pressure on prices. At the major… Read more »

Tanzania: To Uplift a Woman Is to Uplift a Village

Khadija Zuberi, 23, from Ruaha Mbuyuni village in Tanzania's central highlands, is a single mother to her four-year-old son, Hashim. Read more »

Africa: Desertification a Frontline Against Climate Change - IPCC

A new United Nations report has described farming, land degradation and desertification as critical frontlines in the battle to keep the global rise in temperatures below the… Read more »

Zambia: Money Grows On Trees-Don't Uproot Them

Jennifer Handondo, a small scale farmer of Choma district in southern Zambia, plants food crops such as maize mostly for her family's needs. Because of uncharacteristically high… Read more »

Africa: Growing African Agriculture One Byte At a Time

Ella Mazani is a mobile phone farmer. Read more »

Africa: Avoiding the Mistakes of the Asian Green Revolution in Africa

Research scientists are studying groundwater resources in three African countries in order to understand the renewability of the source and how people can use it sustainably… Read more »

Africa: Fighting Food Insecurity in Africa - Lessons From the United States

The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green recently concluded a one-week visit to USAID-funded programs at several African countries, including… Read more »

Nigeria: A Journey From a Small-Scale Farm to International Stage

Chinasa Asonye is CEO of Chileofarms, a women's farming collective Read more »

Zimbabwe: Resettled Farmers Hawking Cigarettes to Survive

For subsistence farmer Rogers Hove - who proudly brandishes a worn out letter for his five hectare piece of land he obtained from government following the chaotic land seizures… Read more »

Africa: Preventing Antibiotic Resistance - Look to the Livestock Industry

Antimicrobial resistance is quickly becoming a global crisis and risks reversing a century of progress in health. Some organisations have already geared up and are tackling the… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Dispossessing Rural Poor

This is a corrected version of the story first published on April 16. Read more »

Egypt: Egypt's Food Challenge - a Good Effort but Not Enough

"Unfortunately the overall nutritional panorama of Egypt does not look well," says Dr. Sara Diana Garduno Diaz, an expert concentrating on nutrition and biology at the American… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Dispossessing Rural Poor

A corrected version published by IPS on April 18, 2019 is available here Read more »

Africa: Urgent Call for African Food Sovereignty Movements to Connect With Radical Feminist Movements On the Continent

Africa is facing dire times. Climate change is having major impacts on the region and on agriculture in particular, with smallholder farmers, and especially women, facing drought,… Read more »

Nigeria: Developing Agriprenuers to Save Youth From Crime

When Lawrence Afere told his parents he was going into farming rather than getting a job in Nigeria's lucrative oil and gas sector, they swore he was bewitched. Read more »

Africa: Agribusiness Is the Problem, Not the Solution

For two centuries, all too many discussions about hunger and resource scarcity has been haunted by the ghost of Parson Thomas Malthus. Malthus warned that rising populations would… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Farmers Secure Land and Food Thanks to 'Eyes in the Skies'

Six years ago while wondering how best to use her engineering skills, Tanzanian ICT entrepreneur Rose Funja decided to enter an innovation competition. Years later she has turned a… Read more »

Africa: Eat Plants, Save the Planet

While the modern agricultural system has helped stave off famines and feed the world's 7 billion residents, the way we eat and produce food is posing a threat to future… Read more »

Africa: Wasting & Dining - the New Water Dilemma

Concerns about the supply side of food systems are shifting from insufficient production and supply, to issues likely to affect food production in the medium and long term, such as… Read more »

Ghana: Restoring Ghana's Mangroves and Depleted Fish Stock

It was just three and a half years ago that the Sanwoma fishing village, which sits between the sea and the mouth of the Ankobra River on the west coast of Ghana, experienced… Read more »

Africa: As Climate Change Pummels Agriculture, Irrigation Offers the Best Protection

The changing climate and extreme weather events are affecting agricultural productivity in Africa to such an extent that a panel of experts are urging governments to prioritise and… Read more »

Africa: Changing the Gender Bias in Agriculture

Women entrepreneurs are playing an important role in transforming global food security for economic growth, but they have to work twice as hard as men to succeed in agribusiness. Read more »

Africa: Creating an African Bamboo Industry As Large As China's

The bamboo industry in China currently comprises up to 10 million people who make a living out of production of the grass. But while the Asian nation has significant resources of… Read more »

Kenya: Improved Husbandry Practices Boosts Aquaculture in Kenya

Despite the humid late October midday weather in Kisumu County near the shores of Lake Victoria, Jane Kisia is busy walking around her fish ponds feeding her fish. As she… Read more »

Africa: Making Agriculture Cool

At every conference she has attended on the youth, Nawsheen Hosenally has been frustrated to hear that agriculture is not 'cool'. The 29-year-old graduate in agricultural extension… Read more »