In this fact sheet, we will look at the history of hunger in Africa and current trends, review the unique characteristics and challenges of each of the five subregions, discuss why hunger is so persistent on the continent, and touch on some of the solutions that are making a difference.
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Key Messages: In Nigeria, a famine "likely occurred in Bama and Banki towns during 2016...although this conclusion cannot be fully verified, a preponderance of the available evidence, including a representative mortality survey, suggests that Fami...
Across the United States, students are developing initiatives to promote agriculture and increase access to healthy food on campus. There are different types of initiatives, including student farms, gardens, food cooperatives, food justice programs...
A new open access review paper is just out in the Journal of Peasant Studies on farmer-led irrigation in Africa. The paper offers a fantastically useful overview of the debate about what form of irrigation is most likely to support increases in sma...
In a world where conflict affects so many communities, it is important to recognize the connection between food insecurity and social unrest. Kimberly Flowers, Director of the Global Food Security Project at the Center for Strategic and Internationa...
Mobile phone technology has the potential to initiate behavior change and facilitate the long-term maintenance of new behaviors. This paper reviews the existing m-agri and m-health interventions. The purpose of this review is to assist would-be imple...
BOGOTA - Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world where only one percent of the farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land, aid group Oxfam said on Wednesday. Colombia, where two thirds of agri...
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