Entrenching New Behaviour as Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)

This is a familiar discussion for many organizations working with smallholder farmers whose purpose is to increase productivity and food safety. Many times, the farmers go back to their age-long practices because there is little or no incentive that...

There is still Hope: When Agricultural Policies Understand New Realities!

The agricultural space in developing countries is already bedeviled with challenges such as high cost of inputs, inaccessible to premium markets, inadequate market information, poor extension service delivery, disruption of the food supply chain due...

A Business Case for Soursop

The use of natural ingredients as treatments for various diseases is increasing and plants are a potential source of natural ingredients that are widely used in traditional medicines. Soursop, a dark green, prickly, heart shaped fruit, grows in...

Agriculture was a Culture, now a Business: Accepting our New Identity and Reality

Agriculture is very symbolic in every community of various countries. Some crops and animals represent various cultural elements that bring emotional and moral benefits which money cannot buy. One of those cultural elements is the new yam festivals...

Do Not Fear Fertiliser in Africa (5)

Sustainable agricultural intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is much needed for food security and development and for the benefit of nature and climate, as it lessens the pressure on forests and natural areas. In this fifth article in their...

Shared Prosperity: It is Not Just Enough to Produce

The world of a farmer is a world full of uncertainty yet with high optimism to achieve bountiful harvest. Such a high hope for a profession whose major activities are embedded in passion, hard work and consistency, coupled with overwhelming...

Cassava: The Power Crop for Africa’s Food Future

Cassava, a plant native to South America (Brazil), is one of the main root and tuber crops grown in the world. It is extensively cultivated as a staple crop in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia for its edible starchy tuberous root,...

Nijsen: Turning Food into Feed Fighting Scope 3 Climate Change

Join us on June 27th, from 1:30 till 2:15 PM (CEST) + 45 more minutes of informality. We'll feature Nijsen for the fourteenth use case in our Digital Food series. Nijsen specializes in processing by-products from the food industry into unique...

Poor Soil Promotes Food Insecurity

Our culture promotes diversity which reflects in our food and environment. The richness of our soil is part of our culture, where caring for it is the right thing to do and tilling it to ensure that food is cultivated and no one is left to go to bed...

Grant Africans their own food and let them make chocolate there (4)

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) urgently needs a more productive agriculture for various reasons. Not only in order to ensure food security and economic development in SSA, but also to safeguard nature and climate. This goal requires both market protection...

Climate Change is a Threat to our Survival

Every smallholder farmer is full of a lot of stories of agony and few success stories as production is considered a more science oriented process and few acts. Thus, it requires a lot of trial by errors in order to get it right. This shows that...

In the Season of Abundance Prepare for the Time of Famine

The utmost desire of every smallholder farmer is to achieve a bumper harvest every production season. Thus, all efforts are geared towards this goal, but hardly are measures put in place to manage the abundance, which result in more post harvest...