For decades, Africa’s food security debate has revolved around familiar questions: How can the continent produce more food? What technologies are needed? Who will fund agricultural transformation? But at the inaugural World Food Prize Foundation DialogueNEXT Africa held in…
Agricultural workers and agrifood systems are on the frontlines of climate change, as extreme heat events increasingly threaten the livelihoods, health, and labor productivity of over a billion people worldwide. But beyond being a seasonal hazard, extreme heat is…
The discussions among attendees of Zero Waste Day revealed supply chains as just one side of the equation, while consumer behavior another
Since its establishment through a United Nations resolution led by Türkiye and over 100 Member States, Zero Waste Day calls for global action
In the settlement of Dollow in Jubaland state, Habiba lost everything to the drought. Her cattle died. Her crops withered. With no other choice, she walked seven days through parched land carrying her malnourished children to reach the nearest…
For generations, Kenya’s smallholder farmers, who produce the majority of the country’s food, have relied on indigenous seeds
This forms part of a broader multi-sectoral drought response strategy of water trucking, livestock feed supplementation, nutrition support
Scenes of coffee farmers cutting down their plants have become common in Kenya in recent years. A preferred beverage for millions worldwide, coffee is now at the center of a transformation shaped by environmental crises, international tensions, and rising…
It made it illegal for farmers to process or sell seeds unless they were registered merchants, denyiny farmers extensive proprietary rights
Kerry and Concern Worldwide, through their partnership, the Alive Program, championing sustainable nutrition, are empowering smallholder farming communities in Tana River County. According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development, smallholder farmers produce 70-80% of Kenya’s total agricultural output,…
