Prime News Ghana reported that the Ranking Member on the Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee in Parliament, Eric Opoku, wants the government to immediately address challenges poultry farmers are currently facing with regard to access to feed …
Biovision (Germany) published an op-ed by Jemimah Njuki, head of the Africa Region and senior research fellow. In the op-ed, Njuki states that research paints a clear picture: in order to fight hunger and poverty effectively, we have to break the rigid…
Reuters published an article that stated that according to government figures, there are about 4.5 million small-scale farmers in Kenya and their collective output accounts for more than 60 percent of the country’s food. Across sub-Saharan Africa, peop…
Bloomberg News produced a video that featured senior research fellow, Joseph Glauber. In the video, Glauber states that the USDA funnels billions to the agriculture industry with few strings attached. Money could benefit the environment — if the govern…
International Center for Investigative Reporting published an article on how the biting effects of climate change on the global community took a bad twist for the smallholder women farmers in the state with a sudden stop in rainfall in 2020, leading to…
Grupo Cultivar (Brazil) published an article on Bayer, IFPRI, and the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) announcing the development of a collaborative study aimed at helping agriculture to develop and implement new solutions to reduce impacts…
The Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that the Ministry of Gender, Community Development, and Social Welfare has rolled out the third phase of emergency cash transfers under the Covid-19 urban cash transfer intervention targeting 74 150 urba…
Daily News (Sri Lanka) published an article about new research that is part of a special edition of Ecological Restoration titled “Restoration by Whom, for Whom,” published in June 2021. The research includes work on farmer-managed natural regeneration…
Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article stating that rice contributes to 48 percent of the total rural employment. Two-thirds of the total caloric need of the country and is the source of half of the country's protein intake. According to the Ban…
The Times (Malawi) published an article on fertilizer and extension services. At the heart of all that Malawi desires to achieve in agriculture are extension and advisory services. Extension services in Malawi are suffering badly under the weight of fe…