News: GFN Congratulates the 2019 joint winners of the Africa Food Prize
The 2019 Africa Food Prize puts a spotlight on bold initiatives and technical innovations that can be replicated across the continent to create a new era of foo...
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Video: Africa Speaks – “Everyone is entitled to food” (Cornell Alliance for Science)
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The Cornell Alliance for Science
Published on Jun 11, 2019 Dr. Kingstone Mashingaidze describes how biotechnology is a human rights...
Ensuring Ag Remains ‘Sexy’ In Africa – Part IV
For the past month the 'Farmer Views' section has featured segments written by GFN member Chibuike Emmanuel from Nigeria who was inspired by a story in The New ...
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...
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...