January 24, 2012
Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers
For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip… Read more »
January 09, 2012
Kenya: Livestock Insurance - A Chance to Outsmart Drought?
The first thing that hits a visitor to Ginda village in northern Kenya is the smell. Read more »
December 08, 2011
Africa: Freedom Songs Sung to a Climate Change Tune
"This land belongs to women, they will never tire!" Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against… Read more »
September 07, 2011
Africa: Surfing the Radio Waves for Sustainable Agriculture
While the use of mobile phones is rapidly surging across Africa, access gaps persist between urban and rural users. But a new generation of social entrepreneurs is remedying this… Read more »
June 06, 2011
Africa: 'To Eradicate Hunger, Treat Small Farms as Business'
Feeding the world’s hungry is the challenge of our times, says Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, an energetic advocate for poor people, particularly poor, rural women. Nwanze is president… Read more »
July 24, 2010
Botswana: Court Bars Community's Access to Water
A Botswana judge has prohibited the Basarwa people of the Kalahari from re-equipping a borehole or drilling a new one in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve - the latest incident in… Read more »
Kenya: The Great Rift
A most intriguing political development occasioned by the constitutional referendum is how former President Daniel Arap Moi and his onetime political protégé, William… Read more »
May 12, 2010
Eswatini: Environmentalist Seeks to Balance Interests of People, Wildlife
Award-winnning Swaziland Environmentalist and Public Attorney Thuli Makama has built a reputation of standing up for the rights of civil society and local communities. Read more »
February 11, 2010
Africa: Indigenous Rights Ruling Could Have Big Impact on Land Disputes
In 1973, Kenya forced the Endorois people off their ancestral land in the heart of the Great Rift Valley to create a wildlife reserve, plunging a community of traditional… 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 »
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 »
Africa: FAO Launches Key Land Initiatives
People's rights to work the land – an indispensable pre-condition for food security in Africa – are the subject of two key initiatives by international agencies working… Read more »
September 14, 2009
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Accuses Zanu-PF of Law-Breaking, Hate, Land Invasions
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has accused President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party of breaking the law, spreading "the language of hate," invading productive farms,… Read more »
July 22, 2009
Sudan: Tribunal Cuts Size of Disputed Abyei Region
An international tribunal has cut the size of the disputed Abyei region of Sudan, rejecting the formal claims of both north and south Sudan and slicing at least 18,000 square… Read more »
June 13, 2008
Liberia: Police Question Two Men Over Farm Clash
Senator Roland Kahn and Charles Bennie, a former rebel official, both allegedly linked to the deaths of 13 persons in a farm clash southeast of Monrovia, turned themselves in to… Read more »
June 12, 2008
Liberia: Farm Workers Killed in Clash
At least 13 farm workers are dead after a violent clash over a plot of farmland 55 kilometers south-east of the capital, Monrovia. Read more »