For Africa to build resilient food systems, the first infrastructure it has to strengthen is the one it has been farming all along: the soil
The call emerges at AFSF 2026 as governments, investors, development partners and farmer organisations meet to deliberate implementing CAADP
For a farmer whose vegetables are losing value due to a lack of cold, reliable refrigeration, the most immediate gap is harvest and market.
For years, the response to Africa’s declining farm yields has followed a familiar script: use more fertilizer. But across Eastern Africa, that approach has run into a hard limit, which is the soil itself. Decades of intensive farming, erosion,…
The world needs enough food as hunger tightens its grip on millions, Africa with vast arable lands, faces heightened food security crisis
Notably, smallholder farmers working small plots of land are the unsung heroes of the climate and nature crises.
smallholder farmers are vital employers, providing up to 60% of on-farm jobs, with over 70% of families earning their livelihoods
Millions of farmers have written a letter calling on the world leaders to address the food scarcity thats a global issue now
Smallholder farmers – the women and men who grow 80% of the food consumed in sub-Saharan Africa – have reached a breaking point.