July 10, 2009
Africa: Obama Explains Food Security Initiative
During a news conference after the G8 Summit ended in L'Aquila, Italy, on July 10, President Barack Obama explained and answered questions on the summit's announcement on food… Read more »
July 09, 2009
Africa: G8 Leaders Pledge to Meet Promises to Continent
Leaders of the world’s eight biggest industrialized nations have promised to boost development assistance to Africa by U.S. $25 billion a year over 2004 levels by 2010. Read more »
July 07, 2009
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Food Supply, G8 Warned
Sub-Saharan Africa is set to lose U.S. $2 billion a year as the viability of its maize crops declines as a result of changes in global weather patterns. Cash crops such as tea and… Read more »
Africa: Beating the Effects of Climate Change
An excerpt from the Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty”: Read more »
Africa: Losing Homes and Eating Ants - Floods in Zambia and Uganda
An excerpt from the Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty”: Read more »
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Crop Yields
Excerpts from the Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty”: Read more »
June 10, 2009
Africa: Continent Makes Unsteady But Remarkable Progress, Says Report
The annual report of the Africa Progress Report says that despite authoritarian and corrupt leaders, wars and coups, the overall trend in Africa is towards less conflict, more… Read more »
May 28, 2009
Africa: Human Rights Group Links Violations to Food Price Hikes
A leading advocacy group has linked escalating food prices and the sharp rise in living costs across Africa to violations of human rights across the continent in the last year. Read more »
February 21, 2009
Zimbabwe: Our Situation is Dire, Tsvangirai Tells Region in Aid Appeal
The new Zimbabwean prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, travelled to Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday to appeal for aid to South Africa and other countries in the Southern African… Read more »
June 18, 2008
Africa: Trade Reforms Can Cut Food Prices
An international panel set up to review whether economically-developed countries are keeping their promises to Africa said this week that progress in talks on a new global trade… Read more »
June 16, 2008
Africa: Rising Food Prices Will Kill Children, Says Panel
There will be a "sharp increase" in deaths among young children in Africa unless the international community finds a way of stopping the current rise in food prices,… Read more »
June 07, 2008
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Using Food as Political Tool, Says U.S.
The American ambassador to Harare has lashed out at the Zimbabwean government, accusing it of using food as a political tool. Read more »
June 05, 2008
Liberia: Market Women Raise Funds in New York
A group of newly-painted red and yellow buildings lines United Nations Drive in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city. The buildings provide shelter for dozens of market women who spend… Read more »
May 23, 2008
Africa: Food Crisis Threatens Democracy
More than half the nations of the world in which riots have broken out over food prices are in Africa, says Julius E. Coles, president of Africare, a U.S.-based organization which… Read more »
April 30, 2008
Africa: Fight Food Prices by Freeing Up Trade
Barriers to free trade are exacerbating the current global food crisis, making the conclusion of the Doha round of global trade talks being conducted by the World Trade… Read more »
April 16, 2008
Liberia: President Appeals to Ghana in Refugee Row
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has warned Liberians not to allow a quarrel over Liberian refugees in Ghana to spill across the border. Read more »
March 20, 2008
Zimbabwe: Agency Acts to Stop Election Food Aid Abuse
The World Food Programme, determined to prevent food aid in Zimbabwe from being used to influence voters in this month's national elections, is speeding up the delivery of its food… Read more »
January 28, 2008
Ghana: In a Field With The Blind
Near the Karni dam in the Jirapa District of the Upper West region of Ghana, a small agricultural development program demonstrates how a little assistance can leverage human… Read more »
January 21, 2008
Kenya: Honey Bees, Goats and Hope
In the Myaribo sublocation not far from the Myaribo dispensary, where Doris Mwangi heads the Kamaneke Dairy Group, we are leaning against the fence of a pen in the group's… Read more »
Kenya: Small Steps Toward Solving Big Problems
"Poverty dispossesses people," says Mark Botongore as we head north from Nairobi on our way to one of the sites of the Central Kenya Dry Area Project (CKDAP). Mark is the… Read more »
January 09, 2008
South Africa: Cabbages Beneath the Power Lines
It is hard to believe that just over 10 years ago the Siyazama garden, in the township of Khayelitsha, was no more than a sandy wasteland over which forbidding power lines loomed. Read more »
South Africa: Sprinklers Salute Summer Food
Alfred Ngcizela, a member of Hlumani ("growing bigger") Garden in Khayelitsha, stands between beds of spinach, sprinklers whooshing around him in peaceful salute to… Read more »
South Africa: Cape Town Goes Organic
The market for organic vegetables in Cape Town has increased massively over the last few years, locals in the industry agree. Read more »
South Africa: A Revolution Fuelled By Organic Vegetables
A quiet revolution is pulsing through the huge residential areas spread out on the edges of Cape Town. Read more »
January 08, 2008
Nigeria: New Agriculture Projects Focus on Processing, Marketing
It smells of freshly ground peanuts inside the mud-walled room where Dr. A. A. Oredipe is standing. His eyes are focused, but moving—inspecting the machine that this small… Read more »
