March 15
Zimbabwe: Beekeeping Offers Opportunity to Zimbabwean Farming Communities
Honeybees quickly react with a sharp and loud buzz sound as beekeeper Tanyaradzwa Kanangira opens one of the wooden horizontal Kenyan top bar hives near a stream in a thick forest… Read more »
March 08
Kenya: International Women's Day, 2024 - Inside Women Dominated Seaweed Farms in Kenya's Indian Ocean Waters
Nearly two kilometers into the Indian Ocean from the Mwazaro beach coastline in Lunga Lunga Sub-County, Kwale County, women can be spotted seated in the shallow ocean waters or… Read more »
February 28
Africa: 'I Haven't Forgotten Where I Came From,' Says Pinto, Incoming Rice Research Institute Chief
Growing up on a small farming station in Holetta (Ethiopia), Yvonne Pinto would accompany her agriculturist father to the farm, where she would spend her time cross-fertilizing… Read more »
February 19
Africa: Smallholder Farmers Are Key to CGIAR Response to Hunger Crisis
Dr Ismahane Elouafi has her work cut out. As the new executive managing director of CGIAR, a global network of agricultural research centers, her mandate, simply put, is to tackle… Read more »
February 22
Kenya: Inside Kenya's Seed Control Battle - Why Smallholder Farmers Want to Share Indigenous Seeds
A group of 15 smallholder farmers in Kenya petitioned the country's High Court, seeking to compel the government to review sections of a law that bans the sharing and exchange of… Read more »
Kenya: Coastal Indigenous and Minority Women Driving Kenya's Blue Forest Conservation Efforts
Fish vanished from the sea near Tsunza, a village on Kenya's coast, after several oil spills between 2003 and 2006. The impact of this and the vanishing mangroves badly affected… Read more »
January 26
Kenya: Under the Scorching Sun Kenyan Farmers Find New Ways to Beat Climate Change
Rural Kenyans are forging a path toward a more sustainable future and protecting their lives and livelihoods from climate change through regenerative agriculture, nurturing hope… Read more »
January 19
Africa: Trapped and Trafficked - Fishers Tell of Forced Labor Horror
"The thing is that when you come from an African country, they know that you're basically trapped," says Noel Adabblah. Read more »
January 16
Africa: New Era - Unlocking Africa's Agriculture Potential Through CGIAR TAAT Model
As hunger and food insecurity deepen, Africa is confronting an unprecedented food crisis. Estimates show that nearly 282 million people on the continent, or 20 percent of the… Read more »
December 10, 2023
Africa: Farm to Fork - COP28 Provides Roadmap to Fix Africa's Broken Food Systems - IFAD
In the absence of sufficient urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is becoming too hot to farm in Africa. Confronted by extreme, intense, and frequent climate events such as… Read more »
December 05, 2023
Africa: Why the UN COP28 Climate Talks Must Serve Farmers to Achieve a 'Just Transition'
By William Warshauer and Joao Campari Read more »
November 27, 2023
Africa: Tackling Agrifood Inequality Can Boost the Bottom Line
Objections to progressive policies are often based on cost. It would be great to have a fairer, more sustainable world, the argument goes, but where will the money come from to pay… Read more »
November 22, 2023
Africa: Indigenous Voices and Food Systems Lead the Way At COP28
In a groundbreaking development, indigenous farmer communities are poised to bring the spotlight onto food systems at the upcoming UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai. Read more »
November 21, 2023
Africa: Improving Livestock Health Is a Net Positive Move Towards Net Zero
The recent downturn in sales of alternative meat products is only the latest evidence that the world is unlikely to give up animal protein completely in the long run. Read more »
November 14, 2023
Africa: Smallholder Farmers Gain Least From International Climate Funding - Study
Smallholder farmers from the Global South benefit from a grossly disproportionate 0.3% of international climate finance despite producing a third of the world's food and despite… Read more »
November 06, 2023
Rwanda: Fighting Malnutrition and Changing Mindsets in Rwanda
Of the many things one might associate with a modern teenager, passion for wholegrain food is probably not the first that comes to mind. An innovative school-meals project in… Read more »
November 01, 2023
Zambia: Communities Taking a Sting Out of Poaching With Alternative Livelihoods
As we approach the forest in the village to appreciate Andrew Mbewe's beekeeping enterprise, a bee from a hive close to the edge of the natural woodland stings him on the cheek. Read more »
October 24, 2023
Africa: Climate Crisis Turns African Rivers Into Epicentres of Conflict #AfricaClimateCrisis
Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could drop by up to 50 percent in… Read more »
October 17, 2023
East Africa: Women Hold the Key to Success of Pastoralism
Women in pastoralist areas of East Africa are critical to the health of livestock in their communities, holding the key to effective animal vaccination campaigns meant to protect… Read more »
September 27, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Food Security Ambitions in El Niño's Crosshairs
Zimbabwe is riding a wave of food security assurances after what officials said was last year's bumper grain harvest, but recent El Niño forecasts could test the country's… Read more »
September 20, 2023
Africa: Why Root Crops Are the Future of Food Security in Africa
Despite the dominance of the "Big Three" cereal crops and a steady rise in meat consumption, an overlooked food sector is projected to become ever more central to Africa's food… Read more »
September 15, 2023
Africa: African Agro-Processors Call for Policies Conducive to Local Manufacturing
Experts at the Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have called on African governments to make and review existing policies to protect the processing and… Read more »
August 29, 2023
Africa: Digging Africa Deeper Into Hunger - Annual Green Revolution Forum Ignores Widespread Failure of Its Push for Industrialized Agriculture
As the adage goes, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, stop digging. As African leaders and their philanthropic and bilateral sponsors prepare for another glitzy African Green… Read more »
August 22, 2023
Africa: Vaccine Equality Is As Vital for Livestock As for People
Enrique Hernández Pando is Executive Director, Commercial Development & Impact, GALVmed Read more »
August 16, 2023
Africa: Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change #AfricaClimateHope
Kenya's fight for food security may have just gone 'Old School' as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way… Read more »