Coming to America in Support of Africa
I’m coming to America. Actually, I’ve already arrived—I got here in the middle of August—and I’ve come twice before, leaving my farm in Zimbabwe and flying a...
Africa
Technology Is Africa’s Food-Secure Future
The average African farmer is a 60-year-old man who took up agriculture because that’s what his parents did. I’m a woman who, in her mid-20s, chose to become...
Video – Daniel Otunge: Africa Needs Biotech Crops
Published on May 17, 2016 Daniel Otunge, coordinator of the Open Forum on Agricultural Technology, discusses the critical need for biotechnology and innovati...
Video: How farmer-philanthropist Howard Buffett is planting hope in Africa
Via PBS News Hour - May 2, 2016: "Howard Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett, has an ambitious life goal: ending world hunger. As a farmer and philant...
With the Right Tools, Zimbabwe Can be an Agricultural Breadbasket
The world of your grandparents may seem utterly different from your own. Where I live, however, it looks like nothing has changed. I raise sorghum and maize ...
Improving Export-Oriented Value Chains in Developing Countries
When policy analysts consider the need to increase food production to feed a global population of over 9 billion people in 2050, change is usually thought of in...
Farm Production Success in the Ukraine Will Require Change
You find villages with the town water source an open well with a winch and a pail on a chain. You see horse-drawn wagons that move feed and people. And liv...
Globalisation Must Connect With African Opportunity
Daily Monitor (Uganda)
Opinion - by Robert B. Zoellick
September 1, 2009
www.monitor.co.ug The Great Lakes region of Africa reveals the continent’s ...
Banana diseases threaten African crop
Reuters.com
August 26, 2009www.reuters.com DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Two banana diseases spreading in Africa could hurt food supply for 30 million people on...
Clinton says farm investment top US priority
AFP / via Google News
August 5, 2009
NAIROBI — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Wednesday for a new approach to food aid, saying one that ai...