Anonymous's blog Imelda Nasimiyu practices digging up a mature cassava root at a farmer training in Namikelo, Kenya. Photo by Kelvin Owino, courtesy of the One Acre Fund blog. One Acre Fund provides smallholder farmers with the tools and financing th ...
Anonymous's blog Farmers in Kimwanga, Kenya, learn how to measure seed and fertilizer for planting at One Acre Fund's base education trainings. Photo by Kelvin Owino, courtesy of the One Acre Fund blog. One Acre Fund is an NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, ...
Anonymous's blog By Dr. Joanna Syroka Dr. Joanna Syroka joined ARC at its inception in 2009, and is currently the Programme Director of the ARC Secretariat. She oversaw the overall work programme of the ARC design phase and is now in charge of all th ...
Anonymous's blog By Francis Peel The Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College In 2013, up to $75 billion dollars was invested by the governments of 169 countries into school feeding programmes. It is estimated that for every $1 spent feedi ...
Anonymous's blog In 2003, African leaders pledged to increase support for agriculture. Known as Maputo Declaration, African leaders agreed to allocate at least 10 percent of budgetary resources to agriculture and to achieve 6 percent growth in agric ...
Anonymous's blog Elias Ndinduyubwo of Kagabiro, Rwanda, carries maize stalks he cut earlier that morning while harvesting. Elias hopes to purchase banana tree cultures with some of the money from his maize harvest. Photo by Hailey Tucker. Photo court ...
Anonymous's blog By Khalid Bomba and Dan Glickman Last year, a bipartisan group of 23 members of Congress, hosted by the Aspen Institute, travelled to Ethiopia to get a firsthand view of the progress the country was making in modernizing agriculture ...
Anonymous's blog This post by senior fellow Roger Thurow originally appeared on the Outrage and Inspire blog. This article was originally posted by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor. For smallholder farms—usually those supporting a single fa ...
Anonymous's blog Catherine Simiyu from Bunambobi, Kenya, spreads the beans she just harvested to dry in the sun. Drying will help keep them from rotting when she stores them. Photo by Kelvin Owino. Photo courtesy of the One Acre Fund blog. One Acre F ...
Anonymous's blog Navyn Salem is the founder and Executive Director of Edesia, a non-profit producer of Plumpy’Nut and other peanut-based, ready-to-use nutritious foods used to treat and prevent childhood malnutrition. Since March 2010, Edesia has rea ...
