All articles in 'Agrifocus'
The patenting of seeds, extension of plant variety protection and rollout of a global regime of inte...
23rd September 2009Farmer field school in Uganda Photo courtesyWe live in a world dominated by buzzwords. T...
5th October 2009Indigenous societies' respect for the strategic knowledge held by women kept agriculture alive but W...
6th October 2009Without a viable, sustainable system that provides our farmers with improved higher yielding and dis...
5th October 2009My father has the legal title to our land but it is my mother who spends 90% of her time hoe-in-hand...
13th October 2009The two organizations will join forces to work directly with national governments and partners acros...
9th November 2009A lot of focus has been on facilitating access by small holder farmers to technologies that have ove...
11th November 2009This is the first time the award has been given to an Ethiopian for work in science and technology.
16th November 2009Helping Africa to feed itself and transform its agriculture into a more productive, competitive and...
17th November 2009We have seen a wish to make us dependent on food imports as opposed to enhancing our own capacity f...
23rd November 2009Food security is about the dietary needs and food preferences of people, so that they have access to...
23rd November 2009More than 60 per cent of the world’s population growth will be in sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change...
8th December 2009For Africa and most developing countries, the agricultural sector and law enforcement systems have b...
7th December 2009The Rwanda Investment Plan has clear priorities for addressing hunger, malnutrition and poverty chal...
11th December 2009“Climate change has brought humanity to a critical crossroads,” says Gerald Nelson, a senior researc...
14th December 2009For hundreds of millions of people in Africa, climate change is not about lowering smoke stack emiss...
15th December 200945 percent of Malawians – nearly half the population – will be without food between now and December...
5th January 2010It is important to push for stewardship in the quest to feed the world and accumulate wealth.
15th December 2009A step to reduce wastage say, in crop production, can go a long way in addressing environmental conc...
21st December 2009Farmers can exercise the right of consciously suspending "immediate gratification" if offered wider...
29th December 2009Farmers can exercise the right of consciously suspending "immediate gratification" if offered wider...
5th January 2010Africa is growing backwards. Koreans, Chinese and now Arabs have bought huge parcels of fertile land...
11th January 2010Populations facing starvation have not consciously opted to be hungry in order to enjoy life on anot...
12th January 2010Local farmers say the improved seeds have raised their incomes, improved health and agricultural pro...
19th January 2010Large swathes of land in western Kenya are infected by bacteria by the name Ralstonia solanacearum.
19th January 2010All familiar banana types - cooking, juicing, dessert and plantain - are in danger of being wiped ou...
25th January 2010Bacteria wilt coincidently attacks crops that are fast moving at the market place such as tomatoes,...
26th January 2010A reader was incensed at my use of “Conspiracy on crop production” in my previous posting. Sure enou...
3rd February 2010Yields doubled from 10 to 20 tonnes per hectare per year in Central Uganda with modest fertilizer ap...
8th February 2010A reader was incensed at my use of “Conspiracy on crop production” in my previous posting. Sure en...
9th February 2010