Reducing the Real Cost of Producing Food: Everyone Needs to be Involved

Have you thought about the real costs of food recently? The long hours it took to obtain quality inputs (such as seeds, fertilizers), the several days to get manpower or labourers to the farm (with those from neighboring countries discouraged due to...

The Cost of Sustainability: Reducing the Burden on the Farmers should be a Priority

Sustainability simply means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In agriculture, it connotes increasing food production for both present and future generations that is...

The Power of Soil Management: Nurturing Our Earth and Securing Our Future

Our farmers are not just food producers but also the custodians of our land; they are the very hands that connect us to the earth. They put in the work, ploughing, planting, fertilizing or harvesting to provide us with one of the basic needs of life...

Exploring the Potential of Cooperatives

Farmers' cooperatives, also known as agricultural cooperatives or co-ops, are business entities where farmers pool resources and collaborate with one another to achieve specific mutual economic, social, and cultural goals. These cooperatives could...

Voluntary Sustainable Certifications (VSCs) Programmes: What does it mean to the Farmers (2)

Sustainable food production is a key pillar in our journey to food security. While the current landscape for Voluntary Sustainable Certifications Programmes (VSCs) in emerging markets largely favors the export market, it's important to acknowledge...

Voluntary Sustainable Certifications (VSCs) Programmes: What does it mean to the Farmers? (1)

Over a decade ago, I developed an interest in sustainable certifications but it came to fruition in 2017, when I was introduced by M. Olusola Sowemimo to GlobalG.A.P Farm Assurer programme. From 2017 till now, I have worked with over 3,000 farmers to...

Healthy Farmers, Healthy Food and Healthy Nation

Farmers belong to the most hard working people in the World: from tilling the soil to maintaining the farm and balancing the ecosystem for more productive activities. However, these activities come at a cost borne by the farmers, and in some cases it...

Zero Hunger: Can Farmers Achieve More without Information?

In the 21st century, technology has provided platforms to bridge the information gap that exists amongst farmers to access relevant information -- inputs and facilities etc. However in the developing countries, there are still limitations as the...

The Beginning of the End: Counterfeit Inputs are Obstacles to Our Food Productivity

Have you spoken with a farmer recently? Or heard a farmer lament about the situation of inputs? My work with farmers in FutuX gives me the opportunity to interact and get firsthand information. In the last few weeks, the common complaint has been the...

The Future of Food: Private Agricultural Extension Services are our Immediate Needs

Any nation that can boast of food sovereignty has strong and efficient knowledge system along its food supply chain. Over the years, there is an increasing demand of food production due to the increasing population in the World. In most developing...

Sustainable Food Production: Where are the Pollinators (2)?

Pollinators are an important component towards achieving food security, and addressing issues around their population's decline is a great step in the journey to zero hunger. In the last decade, our work with the farmers, living in the rural...

A Remarkable Book on Africa: ‘Pathways to African Food Security’

A handful of trees per hectare in treeless farmland can increase atmospheric water capture five- to six-fold. Meanwhile, a healthy diet is unaffordable for around 80% of Africans, compared with a mere 1.2% in affluent nations. And for Europeans who...