A report released recently by Oxfam says that poor people, particularly in Africa, are hardest hit by a new wave of land deals. In many African countries, local residents regularly lose their land to elites, domestic or foreign investors, because they lack the power to claim their rights effectively or to defend and advance their [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Special report: Millions face starvation across Africa as land rush intensifies
Posted in newsflash, tagged Africa, Citizen, Horn of Africa, investment, land grabbing, Oxfam, poverty, Western Europe on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ties that bind: Building climate resilient smallholder agriculture networks in Africa
Posted in newsflash, tagged Africa, agriculture, climate, climate change, Durban, environment, South Africa, Zambia on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As governments and regional actors around the world gear up to engage in COP17 Durban, South Africa, it is essential for all stakeholders including farmers’ organisations to have structured engagement and interaction with the ongoing climate deliberations and outcomes. The public expenditure and smallholder agricultural project of Idasa hosted a roundtable discussion on how best [...]
Africa expects deal on agriculture at COP 17
Posted in newsflash, tagged Activism, Africa, agriculture, climate change, Durban, environment, food security, South Africa on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
African negotiators at the upcoming COP 17 in Durban should push for a binding and responsible climate deal on agriculture. Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) CEO, Dr Lindiwe Sibanda, said African negotiators should make it their priority to secure a deal that will promote food security for climate change not to [...]
Girls are key to food security in poor countries, says report
Posted in newsflash, tagged Africa, agriculture, Chicago, Kenya, Kitui, South Sudan, Southern Sudan, Sudan on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Adolescent girls and women are fundamental to unlocking the full potential of agricultural development and feeding the world, according to Chicago think-tank. For instance, in a dusty field in Kitui, eastern Kenya, farmers are being taught how to construct small, semi-circular barriers of earth that control the flow of water, slowing its run-off. Moreover, most [...]
UN: Food prices likely to remain volatile, high
Posted in newsflash, tagged Africa, Associated Press, Famine, food, Food and Agriculture Organization, Third World, United Nations, World Food Programme on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Prices for rice, wheat and other key foods are expected to remain volatile and possibly increase and poor farmers and consumers particularly in Africa will be hurt most, the U.N. food agencies said in its annual report. A study also predicted that prices will be 20 percent higher for cereals and up to 30 percent [...]
Ten thousand farmers in Northern Ghana to benefit from N2 Africa Project
Posted in newsflash, tagged Accra, Africa, Aid and Development, Business and Economy, Ghana, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, News Agency, Northern Region on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
About 10 000 farmers from six districts of the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions of Ghana will benefit from a project known as the N2 Africa Project by the end of the year. The project, which would run until 2013, seeks to introduce farmers to newly improved soya bean, cowpea and groundnut seeds, [...]
Agriculture investment, empowering women key to food security: FAO
Posted in newsflash, tagged 2007–2008 world food price crisis, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, food security, poverty, Rome, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Day on October 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Leaders from the international community met in Rome on Oct 17, 2011 to celebrate World Food Day, and called for more investment in agriculture and moves to empower women to ensure global food security. “Food prices – from crisis to stability” was this year’s World Food Day theme, after five consecutive years of unstable and [...]
‘Fertilizer’ trees help African farmers increase yields
Posted in newsflash, tagged Africa, agriculture, Crop yield, Fertilizer, Fertilizer tree, Nitrogen fixation, Soil, World Agroforestry Centre on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Extension programmes aimed at helping African farmers grow crops more efficiently are showing some good results. Many subsistence farmers are using fertilizer trees to help enrich depleted soils. In many cases, the trees, which fix nitrogen in the soil, have doubled yields of maize. Fertilizer trees enhance soil health by drawing nitrogen from the air [...]
Farming to banish famine
Posted in newsflash, tagged Africa, government, Nigeria, Osogbo, Osun State, Osun State Government, State and Local Government, United States on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A programme launched by Osun State Government, Nigeria, has its focus on granting assistance in finance, materials and equipment to individual farmers and farmers’ cooperative societies with a view to boosting their scope of operation, productivity and ensuring abundance in food production and raw materials for existing and emerging industries. The Osun Rural Enterprise and [...]
Farmers, processors introduced to value-added crops
Posted in newsflash, tagged Africa, agriculture, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Crop diversity, Field Crops, Ghana, United States, West Africa on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Farmers and food processors from across Ghana have been exposed to improved crop varieties to increase yield and add value to production. Researchers at the Crops Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have also been engaging the farmers in best practices to increase productivity at the farm gate. The [...]
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