Anonymous's blog As part of the Feeding Development campaign, Roger Thurow sat down with Devex's Adva Saldinger to discuss some important global agriculture issues. You can watch his interviews below. The Feeding Development campaign is taking ...
Anonymous's blog Aboke, Uganda- At St. Mary’s secondary school for girls, lessons literally grow on the trees. Philosophical statements and encouraging aphorisms, painted in white letters on green pieces of sheet metal, hang on the trees that ring th ...
Anonymous's blog This post originally appeared on ONE.org. By Malaka Gharib, with Kelly Hauser One of poverty’s cruelest ironies is that in many countries across the world, the hungriest people are smallholder farmers. In this set of cartoons, find o ...
Anonymous's blog This commentary was originally published on The Atlantic. Barjwinya, UGANDA—In this tiny village in northern Uganda, Esther Okwir heard something she could barely believe: Her child could be the country’s president one day. Esther, a ...
Anonymous's blog Photo Credit: Paolo Patruno For smallholder farms—usually those supporting a single family—expenses come early in the season before the planting while income arrives only several months later with the harvest. How, then, can these fa ...
Anonymous's blog Roger Thurow discusses how smallholder farmers can move beyond subsistence in The Economist article, " Empowering Smallholder Farmers."Roger Thurow discusses how smallholder farmers can move beyond subsistence in The Econo ...
Anonymous's blog Roger Thurow discusses potential of smallholders at Cargill Although they have been largely neglected during the past several decades, Africa’s smallholder farmers hold the potential not only to transform their own lives, but also th ...
Anonymous's blog Rasoa Wasike serves lunch to her family. Rasoa Wasike delivers the good news with a broad smile: “We are controlling the diseases of malnutrition, like kwashiorkor, marasmus,” she says on her small farm in the western Kenyan village ...
Anonymous's blog What will he say? What will Nelson Mandela say after 27 years in prison? That was the feverish question infecting the multitudes who had gathered in the center of Cape Town on the glorious February afternoon in 1990 when the leader ...
Anonymous's blog 15-year-old Hagirso (left) has suffered the consequences of the 2003 famine. In the first year classroom of Shemena Godo Primary School, in Boricha, Ethiopia, three dozen children study the alphabet. On a black chalkboard, teacher C ...
