Bernie Reyes's blog Accra, Ghana “Today a hoe. Tomorrow a tractor.” That’s how Kofi Annan described the ambitions of a group of farmers he had met on a visit to Mali before arriving here to head up the African Green Revolution Forum. “I heard their h ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Accra, Ghana In Africa, the Way to an agriculture revolution has long been clear. The original Green Revolution in Asia, in the 1960s and ‘70s, provides the classic roadmap. But where there’s a Way doesn’t mean there is a Will. ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Accra, Ghana It is no coincidence that a neighbor of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa here is Embrapa, the Brazilian agricultural research corporation. For Embrapa was one of the main players engineering the green re ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Bungoma, Kenya In the Bungoma Chemist shop, where you can get almost everything you need to battle a cold, de-worm your cattle or fertilizer your crops, something revolutionary is now on sale. “Kilimo Salama available here,” procl ...
Bernie Reyes's blog It’s maize harvesting time in western Kenya. Tearing the husks off her corn, Jentrix Mesache can hardly believe her eyes – or her ears. The ears of corn are thick and long, perhaps three times larger than the ears she harvested l ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Countervailing winds have been blowing across the global efforts to reduce hunger through agriculture development. Here in the Ethiopian capital, scientists, humanitarians and politicians from across the cont ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Kirehe, Rwanda “We need to build warehouses! We need markets!” Agnes Kalibata, Rwanda’s determined minister of agriculture, carried this emphatic and urgent message to the Kirehe district in the eastern part of the country. Th ...
Bernie Reyes's blog KAGANO, RWANDA As leaders of the world’s top industrial countries gather for the Group of Eight summit in Canada, they can look to the long-suffering hills of Rwanda to see the fruits – and vegetables — of their actions. Corn farm ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The challenge before us was laid out in all its daunting intensity: Current levels of food production in the world will have to double by the year 2050 if we are to feed a growing population and a population that is growing more p ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The looming famine in Niger is a gripping reminder of the urgency of the task at hand: ending hunger through agriculture development. Niger is one of the least developed countries in the world, and its impoverished agriculture sec ...
