Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 43, No. 148, SPECIAL ISSUE: AFRICA AND THE DRUGS TRADE REVISITED (June 2016), pp. 277-293 (17 pages) Over the past decade, African agriculture sectors have ...
ACCRA, Ghana -- The Des Moines, Iowa-based World Food Prize Foundation has awarded its Norman Borlaug Medallion to former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who now heads the Alliance for a ...
Phoenix Plants Lifesaver Pvt. Ltd., an emerging leader in the agricultural solutions sector, has launched a comprehensive ...
Des Moines, Iowa, and Accra, Ghana, are 6,000 miles from each other. This distance was bridged in recent weeks when these very different cities, in very different parts of the world, hosted two ...
Anyone walking through Prashant Thakare’s freshly planted cotton field in the central Indian village of Takarakhede Shambhu could easily mistake a 65-ft.-wide (20 m) pool of murky water for, well, a ...
In March, the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) sent letters to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors calling on them to stop funding ...
Modern supercrops will be a big help. But agriculture can’t be fixed by biotech alone. Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of ...
New research shows that since modern crop varieties were introduced in the developing world starting in 1961, they have substantially reduced infant mortality, especially for male babies and among ...