Dakar, Senegal

Apr 29, 2010

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. In Rwanda, more than 85 percent of the population's livelihood depends on small-scale agriculture. And the majority of primary school students-roughly 60 percent- will return to rural areas to make their living in ways, instead of going on to secondary or vocational schooling or university. With that in mind, in 2007, the organization CARE designed the Farmers of the Future Ini...

Dakar, Senegal

Apr 28, 2010

This is the first in a three-part series about the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. The Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) lives up to its name by linking farmers, businesses, academia, researchers, donors, and national and regional governments. "One thing that we {Africa} fail to do is form coalitions...

Dakar, Senegal

Apr 27, 2010

Check out Danielle Nierenberg's Op-Ed, based on research for the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project, featured on the front page of the Zambia Daily Mail. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In the United States, it seems like we only hear about what's going wrong in Africa. We see and read stories about famine, HIV/AIDS, disease, or conflict. In fact, few Americans will ever step foot ...

Dakar, Senegal

Apr 26, 2010

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. Gertrude Hambira doesn't look like someone who gets arrested regularly. Nor do the other women and men in suits who work with her at the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ), formed in the mid-1980s to protect farm laborers. But arrest, harassment and even torture have been regular occupational hazards for Gertrude-the General Secretary of GAPWU...

Dakar, Senegal

Apr 16, 2010

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Jacob Wanyama, coordinator with the African LIFE Network. Name: Jacob Wanyama Affiliation: African LIFE Network Location: Nairobi, Kenya Bio: Jacob Wanyama is a coordinator with the African LIFE Network in Kenya, an organization that works to increase rights for pastor...