Friday, May 7, 2021
News and Views from the Global South
OPINION: Keep Family Farms in Business with Youth Agripreneurs
Finding a way to allow youth to contribute their natural and ample energies to productive causes is increasingly the touchstone issue that will determine future prosperity.
Aflatoxins: Poisoning Health and Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
Aflatoxin contamination is a growing threat to trade, food and health security in sub-Saharan Africa, where smallholder farmers are challenged by food production and now climate change, researchers said.
IITA Promotes a Solution that Puts Smallholders’ Food, Nutrition and Income in a Bag
Sometimes the best solutions can appear to be so simple that it’s hard to imagine why they weren’t invented centuries ago.« Previous Page
Agribusiness, Research and Rural Economies
Africa and other developing regions across the tropics must increase agricultural productivity, food availability, food safety and the overall performance of these sectors against the backdrop of a larger and more urban human population, uncertain effects of climate, increased demand for energy, disease pandemics, rural-to-urban migration, and, in many cases, civil strife. Most food and nutrition insecurity exists in sub-Saharan Africa due to chronically low crop yields as well as unacceptable post-harvest losses. In spite of the challenges, opportunities abound. IPS reporting highlights the progress achieved over the last 50 years in the continent and exposes setbacks of breakthrough agricultural technologies which bridge the missing links between research, extension and capacity building as a priority in addressing emerging challenges for agricultural development.
Since 2018, IPS trainers and journalists have worked with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on the Capacity to Apply Research Evidence (CARE) in policy for Youth Engagement in Agribusiness and Rural Economic Activities in Africa. The project, sponsored by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and managed by IITA, seeks to enhance the understanding of poverty reduction and employment impact and the factors that influence youth engagement in agribusiness and rural farm and non-farm economy.
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