March 23, 2010
Africa: Chissano Calls On Politicians, Scientists to Co-operate Over Water
This week marks World Water Day, and I am personally endorsing a report by African scientists that examines our continent’s water resources and calls for our political… Read more »
February 18, 2010
Kenya: Urban Women Grow Food in Sacks
Driving through the crowded streets of the sprawling Kibera slum in Nairobi, it’s nearly impossible to describe how many people live in this area of about 400 hectares, the… Read more »
January 25, 2010
Africa: Bill Gates Issues Upbeat Take on African Health, Food Initiatives
Software entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates issued an upbeat assessment Monday on the prospects of overcoming the challenges faced by the world's poorest people –… Read more »
January 07, 2010
Sudan: Western Equatoria Urgently Needs Development
Maya Mailer, co-author of new Oxfam report "Rescuing the Peace in Southern Sudan", recently visited the Western Equatoria region to see first hand how rising attacks by the Lord's… Read more »
Sudan: Communities in Southern Region Yearn for Peace
Finding enough food to have one meal a day is proving a daily challenge for 45 year-old Rebecca Konjo. Read more »
January 05, 2010
Somalia: Conflict Stops Food Delivery to One Million - Agency
The conflict in southern Somalia is preventing the World Food Programme (WFP) from delivering food to up to one million people in the region, the agency said in a statement on… Read more »
December 23, 2009
Africa: Smallholder Agriculture Transforms Lives of Poor
Africa's failure to transform its agriculture sector as rapidly as the rest of the developing world has left an abiding legacy of poverty and hunger. A huge increase in the number… Read more »
December 18, 2009
Tanzania: Kikwete Hopeful for Action On Climate Change, Optimistic On Africa's Future
Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete recently sat down for an hour-long interview with AllAfrica's Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman at State House in Dar es Salaam. In the… Read more »
December 02, 2009
Nigeria: Banking on Agriculture in Kwara
The Nigerian state of Kwara has received international attention for its invitation to dispossessed white farmers in Zimbabwe to come to Nigeria. The oil-producing nation -… Read more »
October 31, 2009
Kenya: Reconstructing Food Security in Africa
Kenya 's Rift Valley province is famed for large-scale food production alongside images of dying animals and hungry people. Read more »
November 23, 2009
Africa: New Hope for Africa's Farmers
Some 218 million people in Africa struggle with hunger daily – about 30 percent of the continent’s total population, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture… Read more »
Tanzania: President Kikwete - 'Agriculture is Everything'
As President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania was about to leave Dar es Salaam on November 15 to attend the World Food Summit in Rome, he sat down at State House to discuss a… Read more »
November 13, 2009
Africa: Climate Change Boosts Need for Policies to Support African Farmers
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 »
November 11, 2009
Africa: U.S. Peace Corps to Bring New Focus to Food Security
The Obama administration earlier this year named a former United States Peace Corps volunteer, Aaron S. Williams, as the program's new director. The Peace Corps, which will soon… Read more »
November 03, 2009
Zimbabwe: Cultivating Food Security in the City
In recent years Zimbabweans have faced severe food shortages and staggering hyperinflation. As a result, residents in the capital, Harare, have increasingly turned to urban… Read more »
East Africa: Saving Lives, Securing Livelihoods
Mount Kenya rises majestically from the Kenyan landscape, dwarfing all around it, a magisterial monument. The mountain is a fertile giant, but this year it became a killing field… Read more »
November 02, 2009
Africa: Food for Thought on Food Security
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 »
November 01, 2009
Kenya: Widows Support Themselves Selling Maize to World Food Programme
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
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
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
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
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: Snapshot Descriptions of Woman Farmers
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 »
South Africa: Women Farmers Play Vital Role in Food Security
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 »
October 30, 2009
South Africa: Land Reform Moves Slowly in Post-Apartheid Era
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 »
