Glenn Denning is Director of the Earth Institute's Millennium Development Goals Centre in Nairobi, in which he played a lead role in its establishment. He joined the Institute at Columbia University ...
Rates of hunger in Africa are unacceptably high and getting worse. The UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 report reveals that food insecurity in Africa is the highest of any ...
As global investors grapple with climate risk, supply-chain fragility, and food security, African agriculture is undergoing a quiet but consequential transformation. Artificial intelligence is turning ...
An article published in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience calls for a diverse, participatory approach that combines indigenous, ...
When 36-year-old Baldwin Mazango started farming in 2012 in Mazowe, eastern Zimbabwe, he had land on which he could plant just 22 potato seed lines, each 15m long – something he now jokes about to ...
The global food system contributes to multiple planetary crises – and is vulnerable to them. Climate change, other ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality are all linked to food.
Africa’s agricultural transformation may hinge less on how much funding is available and more on how intelligently it is ...
African jute leaves, also known as corchorus, are a staple in many traditional diets across Africa. These leaves are packed ...
The Gates Foundation spends billions on agriculture programs. But are they actually helping? The headquarters of the world’s largest charitable foundation stretch along an entire block near downtown ...