Food Crisis: We Need to Act Now
The food crisis in Nigeria is deepening and this is very concerning. It calls for an emergency. The cost of producing food is increasing every day and yet there is no solution at hand.
“People consume food rather than data, but data ensures the security of our food” says Fernando Santiago-Cajaraville of Bühler, a global supplier of technological solutions for food and mobility. In the daily lives of billions, Bühler...
The story of every farmer on the field is full of tales of many challenges, sacrifices and few successes. For every success recorded comes with a huge cost paid. Everyday, there is a farmer paying this huge cost in every corner of the World to ensure...
Africa's population is growing much faster than that of other continents. Is that cause for hope or, on the contrary, for fear? And fear for what or whom? The debate about this is often riddled with prejudice and misunderstanding. In three articles,...
The challenges in the agricultural sector in developing countries are enormous - from inflationary pressure driving price increase, to climate crises impacting production at its different stages, to unstable market and purchasing power of consumers...
Africa's population is growing much faster than that of other continents. Should we fear this or can we draw hope from it? The debate about this migration is full of prejudices and misunderstandings. Demographer Leo van Wissen and environmental...
In my few years of engaging and working with farmers, it is hard to meet farmers without a significant level of agricultural knowledge that has been relied upon for increased productivity. Most of the practices are hinged upon by indigenous...
Africa has already been greatly impacted by global warming. In 2020, there were 4.3 million internal displacements due to disasters1. Floods in Libya resulted in more than 4300 deaths2, an earthquake in Morocco caused more than 2,600 deaths and...
It is a world full of risks, some have severe impact whereas others could be mild, but at one point in time, these risks might still crystallize or happen; irrespective of the mitigations put in place. Moreover, how fast we bounce back from this...
"We need to think about how to radically increase urban food production." As stated by the CEO of the Vertical Farm Institute (VFI) Daniel Podmirseg during the Digital Food webinar "Vertical Farming". The VFI aims to provide sustainable solutions to...
Bush burning is a silent killer to land productivity as the fire burns everything in sight, leaving only misery behind. This culture of bush burning should be abolished totally in the agricultural sector in the developing countries as this destroys...