While the majority of the African population is heavily reliant on agriculture, the continent has lagged behind other developing regions in progressing this essential sector. Research and development specific to …
Excerpted from This is Africa. Whether it is traditional bank lending or private equity, and from major agribusiness to microfinance, one theme stands out — a change in mindset is needed, …
Today, food and prosperity are still intrinsically linked. Farm production provides the life-sustaining calories and nutrients that allow poor communities and, indeed, all people to sustain healthy, secure livelihoods. With …
Today, The Rockefeller Foundation hosted an exciting online conversation as a follow-up to our recent summit in Abuja, Nigeria — “Realizing the Potential of African Agriculture.” We gathered experts from …
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has named 2013 “the international year of quinoa”. This ancestral grain, native to Bolivia and Peru, has been heralded as a …
Cross-posted from This is Africa. In a speech to members of the Zimbabwean farming community in 1994, then-South African president Nelson Mandela remarked: “There are few better ways to show one’s …
A huge shift in thinking is occurring in African agriculture that holds great promise for the continent’s growing economies and for African farmers. Increasingly, African agriculture is viewed no longer …
For decades, the Rockefeller Foundation has recognized and addressed the link between food and population, and with the inexorable growth of cities, both in terms of population and land area, …
Thirty prominent agricultural scientists and development specialists from around the world (GCP21 partners) assembled for four days in Bellagio, Italy, to develop a plan of action to arrest the spread …
Food waste and loss is a large and increasingly urgent problem and is particularly acute in developing countries where food loss reduces income by at least 15% (according to the …