AS THE WHITE HOUSE WECLOMES LEADERS FROM MORE THAN 50 AFRICAN STATES TO WASHINGTON D.C. FOR THE US-AFRICA LEADERS SUMMIT, THE UNITED STATES CAN OFFER THE REGION GUIDANCE IN A RANGE OF SECTORS. CLOSING THE AGRICULTURAL YIELD GAP IS SURE TO BE A PRIORITY. It is estimated that farmers in the US grow five times …
A MALIAN ENTREPRENEUR ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE FARMER LOSSES IN HIS COUNTRY BY HELPING PRIVATIVE THE RICE INDUSTRY. Aspen, Colo. — At last year’s World Food Prize, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, presented on the state of the African agriculture industry. He repeatedly said, “We need to see agriculture in Africa as a business. That …
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Building resilience on Africa’s small farms starts with people and investing in their capacity to bounce back after a shock. These shocks could be external, such as droughts and floods that wipe out an entire livestock herd or destroy a crop …
Five CGI commitment-makers pitch their ideas to the broader CGI community //// Participants: Olivier Behra, Chief Executive Officer, Man And Nature; Pallavi Gaikwad, Program Officer, Sport for Development, The Naz Foundation India Trust; Farah Mohamed, Creator, President and Chief Empowerment Officer, G(irls)20 Summit; Salif Romano Niang, Chief Impact Officer, Malô; John R. Seffrin, Chief Executive …
Mogadishu – One of my earliest childhood memories is of swimming in a small gully near my grandmother’s home in Yaaq Bari Wayne, a dusty collection of tin-roofed adobe buildings huddled together in the plains of southern Somalia’s Bay region. After the Gu rains, the gully became a deep triangular cleft cut into the ground, …