When the Soil is Destroyed, What Can Farmers Do?
My experience working with smallholder farmers spanning over 13 years has taught me many lessons, especially practices that destroy the soil structure and render the farmers helpless and hopeless.
To protect crops from pests and diseases, two approaches are generally used: crop protection products (which can be chemical or green), or biological control through antagonists (predatory mites, bacteria). During the Foodlog Digital Food Webinar on...
The power plant you see above produces electricity. A bakery using electrical stoves purchases electricity in order to bake cakes, pastries and loaves of bread. A supermarket buys the bakeries' products to sell them in its carbon neutral operated...
In automotive you know exactly how many cars you are going to produce. In horticulture, it is more difficult because you are dealing with living organisms. However, data based growth management makes it possible to control life just like a carmaker.
The “wizard farmer” will say food production should not be seasonal as hunger is not seasonal. So, increasing food production becomes a necessity in the face of population explosion. Beyond food hunger is another big threat yet less spoken about....
In this interview, Dr Ikechi Agbugba sheds light on the intricate relationship between inflation and food security, the impact of currency devaluation on the cost and availability of food, and the pivotal role of government policies in Nigeria. Read...
It is a common belief that driving agricultural growth and development in developing countries requires appropriate data-driven policies. This statement can only be correct if data collected reflect the reality of the various stakeholders or actors...
Food is an essential necessity of man and having it in sufficient quantity and quality is a must for survival and growth. Year in and out, the focus is to increase food productivity and at the same time, high quality and safe products. However,...
I have attended various conferences where the discussion had been around repositioning of smallholder farmers but most times, you hardly see the farmers' representatives on such a stage. However, I attended a recent conference where a similar...
Food security in Africa is lower than in other continents. To feed the fast-growing population much more food production is needed. Not just more calories but also more proteins, partially from meat and milk. This requires more-productive livestock....
Until recently, many intervention projects hardly considered the needs of women farmers (Gender insensitive), as assumption over the years had been that farmers' needs are inclusive, whereas in reality farmers' needs are most times not women farmers'...