Why Solving Poverty Should Get Higher Priority Versus Hunger
226.7 MILLION AFRICANS LIVE IN HUNGER
Hunger –
definition: less than 1,800 calories per day. It is a result...
Optimistic outlook for agriculture
The latest forecast released by South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) points to a somewhat optimistic outlook for the agricultural sector...
DOES LESS (farmers) MEAN MORE (success) FOR THE STATE?
THREE LEVELS OF AGRICULTURE
Export, and in very big countries (e.g., India and China) internal distribution to premium markets, is the fastest and most sustainable...
PROCESSING or FRESH – WHICH IS BETTER?
This story brings up a basic dilemma that many fruit growers face:
what is better for me; selling my fruits to a Processing Plant or...
OPed: Will we slash our food supply for politics, or stay with science?
By Okisegere Ojepat, CEO Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya (FPC-Kenya)
One of the sadder aspects of our development into a global village driven by technology...
Apples and pears are nature’s own anti-rust
New year’s resolutions often include drastic intentions which, as often, come to nothing as they demand too big a change. An easy and effective...
Route to Food Security is Impact Assessed Regulations
By Daniella Munene, CEO of Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya
Our parliamentarians are sometimes required to rule on some challenging proposals, with the private members’ Kenya...
Getting women in the driver’s seat of Africa’s agribusiness revolution
by Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya
Monica Musonda, CEO of Zambian food processing company Java Foods , certainly faced hurdles in her rise to the top,...
Botswana government to blame for unprecedented rate of rhino and elephant slaughter: Political Animal...
Rhinos and elephants are being slaughtered at an unprecedented rate in Botswana and NGO Political Animal Lobby (PAL) lays the blame squarely on the...
Oped : Cease the big window of opportunity this planting season!
Land preparation – Dr Ben Ngwene, AGCO
While the southern African region endures a persisting drought which started back in October 2018, planting season 2019 is...