Aug 15 2013
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 …
Food
Aug 14 2013
Perspective
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 …
Aug 10 2013
Perspective
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 …
Aug 06 2013
Perspective
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 …
Jul 31 2013
Perspective
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 …
Jul 03 2013
Perspective
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, …
May 29 2013
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
May 28 2013
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 …
Food
May 08 2013
Perspective
Next week, Tuesday, May 14, the Rockefeller Foundation will mark our Centennial. In the lead up to the celebration, I’ve been contributing a series of posts about what we’ve learned …
May 06 2013
Perspective
This post originally appeared on CIAT: International Center for Tropical Agriculture. Scientists are struggling to contain a flesh-eating virus sweeping across the cassava plantations of Africa, destined for the world’s biggest …