Agriculture accounts for almost 30% of the average GDP of the economies of East Africa countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia). It also provides employment and livelihood for more than 40% of people in the region. However, with a combined population of 249.9m people …
Every rainy season Jane Kabugi’s home comes under attack. The torrential rain so desperately needed downstream to fuel Kenya’s rising electricity demands – and Nairobi’s water requirements – has literally been tearing her home and farm apart.
“There was a time when this house of mine…
The newest edition of the Young Professionals in Agriculture Development (YPARD) newsletter has now been published, and can be found here.
The results from the participatory risk assessment of these value chains are published in Grace et al 2010, and a paper analyzing the gendered dimensions of risk is underway by Delia Grace, Sophie Theis, Kristina Roesel, Erastus Kang’ethe, and Bassirou Bonfoh.
In rural Mali, a Fulani…
Source: CGIAR
As a result of a major breakthrough, beans – once feared to be a casualty of climate change – are now set to withstand extreme temperatures, protecting a staple food of the poor in developing countries.
Amidst fears that global warming could zap a…
Please contact us (see below) if you would like to share views on the A4NH program or any of its projects. We are visiting Bangladesh, India and Kenya soon and might be able to meet you. Otherwise, we can offer a phone/skype interview. We will also be circulating a short survey. We look…
For millennia communities of farmers, herders, fishers, and forest people have developed complex, diverse, and locally-adapted agricultural systems. These systems have been managed with time-tested, ingenious techniques and practices that have led to community food security, the conservation…
Under the Strategic Framework, FAO has made resilience a corporate priority. Its approach focuses on supporting people, institutions and state systems to absorb, adapt and transform when confronted with shocks and threats affecting their food security and agriculture-based livelihoods. In…
The three led by example by signing up on the online platform during a HeForShe gala dinner in Nairobi, Kenya on 10 February, the first regional event of its kind in Africa. The event was attended by Ambassador Sahle Work-Zwede, the Director General, United Nations Office in Nairobi; …
As farmers age around the globe – I estimate that the average age is 55 – we need to make sure that young people see the food system as a viable career option. These farmers are the future of food. They can help to mitigate and potentially reverse climate change, curb unemployment and…
