Beginning of Food Security: Good Seed, Good Life

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde's emphasis is placed on seed quality. Sustainable seed quality and seed production is key in order to ensure high quality variety of crops.

Trustworthy Data Key to Reliable Due Diligence

Join us on Tuesday, April 26, from 1:30 PM till 2:15 PM (CET) + 45 more minutes of informality (if you care to stay on) for the third use case in our Digital Food series. Registration is no longer possible.

Is Dutch Expertise and Knowledge in Protected Horticulture Tailored to the Needs of Lagos state?

Join us for the seventh Global Agricultural Politics and Policy from an African Perspective (G.A.P.P.A.P.) webinar on Thursday 14th April, 5-6 PM WAT/6-7PM CET via Zoom. Victoria Madedor will talk with our guest speakers about protected horticulture...

It Only Becomes Food, If It Is Safe to Consume

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde touches on food safety. More food is not the only goal that needs to be achieved. It needs to be safe as well. This is something that desperately needs to be addressed at the farm level.

War over Ukraine Could Put EU-Africa Relationship On the Map

The political, strategic, and economic realities are changing by the day, as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine. We cannot predict the future, but we can try to learn about it to the best of our abilities. Peter van Bodegom is a professor...

Weak Infrastructure, no Sustainability

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde stresses the importance of placing sustainability itself as a key factor in developing social and economic infrastructure if we are to see any growth in the agricultural sector.

Food Security: The Need to Increase Productivity

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde discusses the importance of knowledge transfer and growth in order to appropriately increase productivity.

Putin’s War Sets the Stage For New Geopolitical Policies

Europeans who thought their misery was over after the Covid measures were lifted, proved to be mistaken. They will continue to live in an unstable context for years and possibly even longer. Their new world began on February 24th when Putin invaded...

Women in Agriculture: Breaking the Bias

Breaking the bias and feminizing agriculture is crucial to achieve food security in Africa, argues Babatunde in today's letter to his farmers.

Advancing Local Technologies: The Future of Abundance Food

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde discusses the local technologies that are important to consider in finding solutions where technology isn't available to all farmers.

Port of Amsterdam sets Sustainability Standards for Commodities Shipping

Join us on Tuesday, March 29, from 1:30 PM till 2:15 PM (CET) + 45 more minutes of informality (if you care to stay on) for the second use case in our Digital Food series.

Food Safety: Our New Mantra

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde stresses the importance of food safety, starting at the production line and all the way to consumers buying the product.