Food Security

Science: Not Just a Western Sector, It Can Help Africa Too

By Busani Bafana
Small-scale farmer Augustine Sibanda has grown resilient traditional sorghum varieties passed down through generations but has increased his yields after he adopted improved seed varieties developed through research.

Agroecology in Africa: Mitigation the Old New Way

By Frederic Mousseau
Millions of African farmers don’t need to adapt to climate change. They have done that already.

Kitchen Gardens are Victory Gardens in Boosting Nutrition and Incomes in Western Kenya

By Justus Wanzala
Busia County in western Kenya is home to an array of indigenous vegetables. But for decades there has been a shift in popular taste leading to leading to little interest in what is indigenously grown. This relegated the vegetables to the periphery with most farmers cultivating kale and cabbages among other more exotic varieties.

Insecurity in Dominican Countryside Threatens Local Food Supply

By Ivet González
“Sometimes we have too much water, which washes everything away,” Cecilia Joseph, originally from Haiti, said in heavily accented Spanish while pulling up a ñame root (a kind of yam) on her farm in the municipality of Santo Domingo Norte in the Dominican Republic.

WTO: Giant Steps in the World Conference

By Roberto Azevêdo
World Trade Organization (WTO) members concluded the Tenth Ministerial Conference in Nairobi on 19 December by securing an historic agreement on a series of trade initiatives. The “Nairobi Package” pays fitting tribute to the Conference host, Kenya, by delivering commitments that will benefit in particular the organization’s poorest members.

Despite Health Risks, Many Argue GMOs Could Help Solve Food Security

By Mbom Sixtus
Cameroon is on the path to introduce genetically modified organisms (GMO’s). This would be overseen by the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the National Biosafety Committee, if the Cameroon Cotton Corporation successfully implements a three-year test cultivation of cotton.

Climate Smart Coffee and Banana Set to Boost East African Farmers’ Income

By Wambi Michael
Ugandan farmers are increasingly inter-planting coffee, the country’s primary export, and banana, a staple food, as a way of coping with the effects of climate change.

COP21 Solved a Dilemma Which Delayed a Global Agreement

By Mario Lubetkin
One of the most significant aspects of the international conference on climate change, concluded in Paris on December 12, is that food security and ending hunger feature in the global agenda of the climate change debate.

Mexico to Export Nixtamalisation of Grains to Africa

By Emilio Godoy
Every day in the wee hours of the morning Verónica Reyes’ extended family grinds corn to make the dough they use in the tacos they sell from their food truck in Mexico City.

Climate Change and Women Across Three Continents

By Dizzanne Billy, Domoina Ratovozanany, and Sohara Mehroze Shachi
The link between women in climate change is a cross-cutting issue that deserves greater recognition at climate negotiations. It is pervasive, touching everything; from health and agriculture to sanitation and education.

Tackling Climate Change in Africa: Europe’s Solution to the Migrant Crisis?

By Friday Phiri
As thousands of Africans arrive in Europe every month, often risking their lives aboard shaky boats to get to a better life, lack of access to energy could be one of the reasons for their exodus.

Farmers to COP 21: Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You!

By A. D. McKenzie
When Dr. Evelyn Nguleka says that the world’s people shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds them, she explains that she’s not only referring to protecting farmers, but also to safeguarding the environment.

Permeable Dams Prevent Land Loss and Save Mangroves in Suriname

By Desmond Brown
Suriname’s coastline is eroding so quickly scientists predict the country’s maze of mangroves could disappear in just 30 years unless there is urgent action on climate change.

Soy, an Exotic Fruit in Brazil’s Amazon Jungle

By Fabiana Frayssinet
In the northern Brazilian state of Pará, the construction of a port terminal for shipping soy out of the Amazon region has displaced thousands of small farmers from their land, which is now dedicated to monoculture.

Native Seeds Help Weather Climate Change in El Salvador

By Edgardo Ayala
Knife in hand, Domitila Reyes deftly cuts open the leaves covering the cob of corn, which she carefully removes from the plant – a process she carries out over and over all morning long, standing in the middle of a sea of corn, a staple in the diet of El Salvador.

El Salvador Forges Ahead in Fight Against Hunger

By Edgardo Ayala
In the last 15 years, El Salvador has managed to reduce the proportion of hungry people living in extreme poverty by four percentage points. But they still represent 12.4 percent of the population, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Analysis: Are Young People the Answer to Africa’s Food Security?

By Busani Bafana
Are you young, energetic, creative, ambitious and need a job? Africa's agriculture sector needs you!

Latin American Legislators, a Battering Ram in the Fight Against Hunger

By Marianela Jarroud
Lawmakers in Latin America are joining forces to strengthen institutional frameworks that sustain the fight against hunger in a region that, despite being dubbed “the next global breadbasket”, still has more than 34 million undernourished people.

Frequent Floods Intensify Migration, Food Security in Pakistan’s Mountainous North

By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio
Ishaq Khan shivers as he recounts an unfortunate flash flood in 2010, which covered his maize and potato crop with mud and washed away over a dozen fruit trees he planted 45 years ago.

Urgently Needed: Studies Linking Land Degradation, Migration, Conflict and Political Instability

By Manipadma Jena
Some 135 million people could be displaced by 2045 as a result of land desertification, according to a recent UK ministry of defence report. This figure could rise to 200 million who are displaced by other climate change impacts like natural disasters by 2050, said British environment refugee specialist Norman Myers.

Zimbabwe’s Smallholder Farmers Seek Address Food Security and Health Risks with Air Tight Storage Technology

By Busani Bafana
Last season, Mollene Kachambwa lost a tonne of the 5 tonnes of maize the family harvested to weevils and fungi.
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