Africa

Achieving Zero Hunger - Building the Right Food System

A food system is an important component of nation building, as all the processes and infrastructure in ensuring that food is available are involved. Cultivation, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, distribution,...

Food Aid is not a Solution to Zero Hunger

Over the last 50 years, the food systems in developing countries has suffered major shocks and instability leading to food crises. Every year, trillions of dollars are spent on food aids in developing countries, and at the same time worsening the...

Affordable Financial Products for a Sustainable Food System

Every effort of a farmer is to ensure that enough food is produced at the time due and reaches the target market. However, there are several factors that limit the scalability of a farmer's production; one of which is access to affordable financial...

There should not be gaps in GAPs

In the most remote areas of developing countries, there are smallholder farmers working assiduously to make food available for his or her family and a little commercial quantity for income. This is the main reason smallholder farmers are the bedrock...

The Driving Power of the Agricultural Sector (2)

When there is a major disaster leading to huge loss, who do farmers run to for help? In most developing countries, there is no safety net for farmers to bounce back quickly and this is a major challenge in our food system.

Food Policies: The Driving Power of the Agricultural Sector

Food is our greatest asset as it represents a common language everyone understands. The feeling of hunger is the same across tribes, nations and sex; there is no difference and only one thing solves hunger - Food.

As Water from the Sky remains Reduced, Food Production cannot wait!

In the last few weeks, I have emphasized the effects of climate change on rural dwellers' livelihood in developing countries, who are mainly agrarian. One of these effects is the increase in early dry spell and late spell: rainfall not starting early...

Biodiversity: Achieving Sustainable Agriculture

There are a lot of resources available in the environment that support our living conditions. One of these great resources is biological diversity, also known as biodiversity.

Agriculture: Policies and Ownership

In this week's letter Babatunde adresses the question why a lot of policies don't yield the results we hope for in the agricultural sector.

Climate is Changing: Why are you not Changing? (2)

In this week's letter to his farmers, Babatunde stresses the need to change and make commitments now in response to climate change.

Climate is Changing; Why aren’t you changing? (1)

In this week's letter to his farmers, Babatunde urges them to change their pattern of farming in response to climate change.

Quality Seeds: Our Right as Farmers

This week's letter is about a topic very important for farmers: seed quality