Africa
Video: Soybean Innovation Lab SMART Farm Improves Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Watch how the Soybean Innovation Lab's SMART Farm is generating critical new data for increasing smallholder farmer yields....
People are starving in East Africa — again — as the world looks away
Humanitarian groups are growing increasingly concerned about two hunger emergencies unfolding in East Africa -- one caused by drought, the other by war. Millions of people in Ethiopia and South Sudan are short on food, international agencies say, and in South Sudan, conflict has made it difficult...
The Grinch’s not-so-festive guide to food ration cuts
It’s been a hard year for the most vulnerable among us. This is partly due to tightening aid budgets, but it’s also the result of there simply being so many more people in crisis who need help. See full report at...
With continued drought, Horn of Africa braces for another hunger season
Countries in the Horn of Africa are likely to see a rise in hunger and further decline of local livelihoods in the coming months, as farming families struggle with the knock-on effects of multiple droughts that hit the region this year, FAO warned today. Growing numbers of refugees in East Africa, m...
A Famine likely occurred in Northeast Nigeria and may be ongoing in inaccessible areas of Borno State
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 Famine (IPC Phase 5) occurred in Bama LGA during 2016,...
Farmer-led irrigation in Africa: Driving a new Green Revolution?
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 smallholder production and livelihoods in Africa. ...
Can $10 billion end Nigeria’s century-long oil war?
Militant groups are fighting for a greater share of Niger Delta's vast oil wealth. See full story at http://features.irinnews.org/nigera-oil-conflict...
As grasslands dwindle, Kenya’s shepherds seek urban pastures
NAIROBI, Kenya — Allan Lemayian is what you would call an urban shepherd. He goes where the green grass grows. It doesn’t matter if that grass grows along a four-lane highway or in front of a Shell station or o...
The massive food crisis you haven’t heard about (video)
In Southern Africa almost 40 million people will likely need emergency assistance before the year is out. The weather system El Nino is causing abnormal weather conditions, wreaking havoc in the region. CSIS saw the impact for itself in June, during a visit to Mozambique and Malawi. ...
Land grab update: Mozambique, Africa still in crosshairs
More than 1,000 large-scale foreign land deals are now under contract for agriculture covering more than 26 million hectares of land, according to the new report, "Land Matrix Analytical Report II: Internation...
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