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 thirteenth 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...

Financial Inclusion Should be a Priority for Smallholder Farmers

Smallholder farming is characterized by a small scale of production especially in terms of land usage, often less than 10 hectares (ha) for farming activities, purpose of production - which is for both personal and commercial reasons. Also, the...

Nigeria’s Cashless Redesign Excludes Smallholder Farmers and the Average Nigerian

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has embarked on a cashless economy. The central bank governor's says the main objectives of its redesign were to make monetary policy decisions more effective, deepen financial inclusion in the country, curb terror...

Food Security: Mechanization is the Way to Increased Output

It is important to appreciate the efforts of farmers every day and anytime we remember that they are the lifesavers who are less celebrated. This is because of the risks involved in production, in addition to the drudgery nature of farming that is...

An integral Approach to Green Infrastructure

Join us on May 30th, from 1:30 PM till 2:15 PM (CEST) + 45 more minutes of informality. We'll feature the Vertical Farm Institute for the twelfth use case in our Digital Food series. Register here.

Food Security: Increasing Soil Productivity and Environmental Sustainability

No matter the quality of the seeds, the richness of the soil plays an important role to actualize good yield (or the full potential of the seeds). Thus, improving the soil is an important component to achieve high crop productivity.