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Last year, The Rockefeller Foundation began to tackle a major African food security challenge: the problem of cassava spoilage. Fresh cassava roots rot exceptionally quickly. With deterioration starting between 24-72 hours …

  If one were to travel through the vast lush lands of Uganda and come across Kongoidi village, nestled between Bukedea and Mbale district, here you will stumble upon Demetria. The 70 …

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) – telephones, computers, television, radio, and others – are garnering increased attention for their potential to help scale agricultural extension and training. ICTs offer an …

In early 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation posed a challenge to the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI), its Innovation Partner for YieldWise: How might we dramatically extend the shelf life of perishable …

Nigeria is Africa’s second largest tomato producer. Approximately 200,000 farmers, mostly located in 12 states, grow more than 1.8 million metric tons of tomatoes every year. This isn’t enough to …

Increasingly, companies that source from smallholder farmers and governments that regulate global food trade require traceability along the value chain. Tracing the movement of a product from producer to the …

As a term, “innovation” is everywhere. Headlines tout it, commercials advertise it, innumerable companies claim it. It is a term so ubiquitous, it risks becoming meaningless. Indeed, “the overuse and …

Think about this for a minute: every year, a third of the world’s food -1.2 billion metric tons - is either lost or wasted. This has both economic and environmental consequences, …

Daily images of drought are a stark reminder of the importance of food for human health and prosperity. And while we know that agriculture is the economic backbone of most …