Africa: Covid-19 an Opportunity to Build Resilience Around Food Systems

The Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has appealed to the United Nations to educate citizens to use their roles as consumers to create a momentum for change. This was… Read more »

Africa: Digitisation Could Transform African Agriculture

Placing an online order for farming inputs saves Velebantfu Dlamini about USD12 in transport fees for a round trip of about 320 kilometres. The 26-year-old vegetable farmer from… Read more »

Africa: CARE Offers Policies That Engender Success for Young People in Agribusiness

Often cited as Africa's greatest asset, its youth are also among the most vulnerable and volatile. Read more »

Africa: What Does Building Back Better Look Like for African Women Engaged in Smallholder Agriculture and Food Businesses?

"We need to build back better." This has been the rallying call on the COVID-19 response by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to leaders and communities around the world. It… Read more »

Africa: Gendering Agriculture So Women Take the Lead in Feeding Africa

Africa's hopes of feeding a population projected to double by 2050 amidst a worsening climate crisis rest on huge investments in agriculture, including creating the conditions so… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Sustainability of Natural Food Sources Take a Knock Amid Growing Economic Crisis

Sarudzai Moyo, a former teacher, has begun a new career as a fishmonger. Once a week she makes the 450km journey from Bulawayo to Binga, on the shores of Lake Kariba, where she… Read more »

East Africa: Scientists Draw Up Guidelines to Help Agri-Food Companies Align With 2030 Agenda

In Amuru district, 47 kilometres from Gulu town in northwestern Uganda, the Omer Farming Company has proven that it is possible to farm on thousands of acres of land using methods… Read more »

Africa: Failing Africa's Farmers, Starving the Continent

African organizations are demanding answers after a recent report found that Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) strategies have failed spectacularly to meet its goals… Read more »

Africa: How Women-Led Agribusinesses Boost Nutrition on the Continent

Oluwaseun Sangoleye's son developed rickets after rejecting baby formula. So she started a business to make natural baby cereal from locally-sourced ingredients in Nigeria. Read more »

Africa: To Stay Ahead of the Next Insect Outbreak, Harness Available Data Intelligence

Recently, the UK contributed £17 million to support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to continue their efforts to combat the desert locust… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Post-Pandemic Future Needs to Embrace Youth in Agriculture

Warnings at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that Africa could be hit by a wave of up to 10 million cases within six months thankfully now seem unfounded, although it is… Read more »

Africa: Agroecology Strengthens Farmers' Resilience but Highly Underfunded in Africa

With just a quarter of an acre of land in Kesses near Kenya's Eldoret town in the Rift Valley region, Samson Tanui is practising agroecology and his permaculture unit has become… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Digital Agriculture Benefits Zimbabwe's Farmers but Mobile Money Is Costly

Shurugwi communal farmer, Elizabeth Siyapi (57) can no longer be scammed by unscrupulous middlemen to sell her crops cheaply. Nowadays, before she takes her produce to market she… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Smallholder Farmers Step Into the Food Supply Gap

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe' second city of some 700,000 people, has experienced a shortage of vegetables this year, with major producers citing a range of challenges from poor rains to the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Youth Scholars Harvest Ideas On the Business of Agriculture

In Rwanda, Benimana Uwera Gilberthe, a scholar and pepper producer, experienced first-hand the challenges of breaking into agribusiness. Read more »

Africa: Reimagining Farming Post-COVID Pandemic

Together with medical services and transportation, farming and food production have been correctly identified as 'essential services' by all countries under lockdown. The Covid-19… Read more »

Africa: 'Continent Needs a Green Counter-Revolution'

In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The African Green Revolution… Read more »

Africa: Creating Opportunities to Nurture Agripreneurship Among Africa's Youth

"It is not easy to be in agriculture but you must have the perseverance and you must have the passion for it," Ngozi Okeke (30), the director of operations at Frotchery Farms,… Read more »

Swaziland: Climate-Smart Agriculture Means More Time for Women Farmers

Aside from the seven hours Mantfombi Msibi (63) would spend daily during the Eswatini farming season planting, applying herbicides and weeding her 1.2-hectare maize field, she… Read more »

Senegal: Senegal Farmer Succeeds With Regenerative Agriculture And Begins Teaching Others

Souylemane Samb sits under a crowded tent on a hot Senegalese day. He wears a canvas vest with Trees for the Future printed across the back. Read more »

Africa: Biodiversity & Agriculture - Nature's Matrix & Future of Conservation

When we were children, a long auto trip would require a stop every hour or so to clean the windshield of the insects that had been intercepted. Read more »

Africa: Pulses for a Sustainable Future

Reducing poverty and inequalities, eliminating hunger and all forms of malnutrition and achieve food insecurity for all - these are some of the most important objectives of the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Youth Make Land Restoration Their Business

The last time Siyabulela Sokomani ran a marathon he did so with a tree strapped to his back. A native wild olive sapling to be exact. It affected his race time for sure, with the… Read more »

Africa: Agro-Tech Offers Answers for African Farmers At Iowa Meet

Experts vaunted new strains of seeds, drone aircraft and other technological breakthroughs as solutions-in-the-making for farmers in Africa, where hunger, drought and food price… Read more »

Ghana: Ghana's Grains and Groundnuts Face Increasing Contamination Amid Increasing Temperatures

Adwoa Frimpomaah, a smallholder farmer from Dandwa, a farming community in Nkoranza, in Ghana's Bono East Region, and her two children have been consuming insect-infested and… Read more »