Tag: Africa
How Fall Armyworm Can Be Beaten in Africa
Africa & Middle East: B.M. Prasanna, Director of the Global Maize Program at CIMMYT outlines the actions that must be urgently taken to protect African harvests from the plight of this pest.
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Tackling the “Other” Malnutrition on the Rise in Africa: Obesity
Africa & Middle East: Sheryl Hendriks, Director of the Institute for Food Nutrition and Well-being at the University of Pretoria, South Africa argues an unexpected yet dangerous form of malnutrition is on the rise in Africa.
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Combatting the AMR Crisis in the African Livestock Sector
Global: Supporter organisation AgriProFocus discusses steps needed to curb the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance in the livestock sector.
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Video: H.E. Joyce Banda Speaks to Farming First TV
Africa & Middle East: Former President of Malawi tells Farming First TV her vision for transforming African economies through agriculture.
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Providing Working Capital for African Agribusinesses
Africa & Middle East: AgDevCo discusses approaches for financing the "missing middle" of African agribusinesses.
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Using Education to Create a Generation of “Agripreneurs”
Africa & Middle East: How to overcome the many barriers and pitfalls to becoming an agricultural entrepreneur in Africa.
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Sir Gordon Conway: 11 Innovations for African Smallholder Agriculture
Africa & Middle East: Our guest author, Sir Gordon Conway from Agriculture for Impact, discusses his new report, which calls for more multidisciplinary, collaborative research at a range of scales for African agriculture. The report is being launched today at the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. In my latest report, “Innovation for Sustainable Intensification in Africa”, my […]
Read MoreFarming First welcomes two new supporters: Prorustica and africapractice
: Farming First is delighted to welcome new supporters africapractice, a Pan-African strategic advisory and communications consultancy, and Prorustica, advisors on agribusiness partnerships. Prorustica and africapractice today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate and foster agricultural partnerships in Africa. They have pooled their experience and their services to assist companies and investors to identify and develop […]
Read MoreFighting Poor Nutrition with Biofortified Sorghum
Africa & Middle East: Africa continues to slip behind in meeting basic nutritional needs, with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for half the deaths of children under the age of five within the developing world. The Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) project is a public-private consortium that seeks to use biotechnology to develop a more nutritious and easily digestible sorghum that contains […]
Read MoreSyngenta and CIMMYT Partner to Help Farmers Combat Crop Losses
Global: As part of GCARD 2010, Farming First hosted a session entitled ‘Better Benefiting the Poor through Public-Private Partnerships for Innovation and Action.’ Within the discussions, our panel of experts addressed several case studies that present different ways that partnerships have helped to empower smallholder farmers around the world. Marco Ferroni – Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable […]
Read MoreChallenge Fund to Accelerate Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Africa & Middle East: As part of GCARD 2010, Farming First hosted a session entitled ‘Better Benefiting the Poor through Public-Private Partnerships for Innovation and Action.’ Within the discussions, our panel of experts addressed several case studies that present different ways that partnerships have helped to empower smallholder farmers around the world. Gavin Onley The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund […]
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