Africa
Cornell-Led Project Awarded $35 Million to Research Crop Vital to Africa’s Food Security
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom government collectively awarded $35 million to a Cornell project researching and promoting the use of cassava, a carbohydrate-rich tuber plant, in sub-Saharan Africa....
Can nuclear technology zap hunger in Central African Republic?
Tucked away on the University of Bangui campus in the capital of Central African Republic, a portacabin surrounded by palm trees shelters neat rows of test-tubes filled with green shoots. Here scientists are running a laboratory using advanced nuclear-derived techniques to find a solution to one of...
WATCH: Nigeria’s soil-free salad farm
How one young entrepreneur is growing greens in shipping containers - no soil needed....
Rising Temperatures, Terrorism Threaten Cameroon’s Food Security
Cameroon says its northern border with Nigeria and Chad and most of the Lake Chad basin face a food crisis because of desertification and the Boko Haram conflict that stopped farmers from doing their work....
The struggle to survive South Sudan’s hunger season
Almost half of South Sudan's population – 4.8 million people – are currently severely food insecure: an increase of 1.4 million since last year....
Can online courses fix Africa’s food insecurity?
South African farmer Howard Blight's company, Agricolleges International (ACI), will roll out its first courses in early 2018, and in the next few years plans to have a curriculum incorporating all of the agrisciences and an expanding footprint across Africa....
Responding to East Africa’s food security crisis in 2017, preparing for next year
Governments and donors are working together to mitigate food insecurity in East Africa, where relief efforts are complicated by lack of rain, cholera and other issues....
Kenyan farmers reap economic, environmental gains from ABCDs of agroforestry
Kenyan farmers are building resilience and income through an intercropping system developed with the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF)...
African women are starting to take a lead in agricultural research
A new study shows that the number of African woman engaged in agricultural research is increasing...
DR Congo: Hunger crisis, scarce funds could push Kasais to brink of catastrophe, UN agency warns
An acute hunger emergency ravaging Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s strife-torn Greater Kasai region could transform into a long-term disaster if additional resources are not made available urgently, the United Nations food relief agency warned Thursday....
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