The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) considers gender mainstreaming, or involving women in farming development efforts, an essential component of its efforts to improve food security in Africa. This is especially the case when it comes to economic empowerment. Annina Lubbock is Ifad's senior technical advisor for gender and household food security. She oversees how to improve ...
IN 1890, the French statesman Jules Francois Camille Ferry wrote, "an irresistible movement is bearing the great nations of Europe towards the conquest of fresh territories. It is like a huge steeplechase into the unknown...whole continents are being annexed...especially the huge black continent so full of fierce mysteries and vague hopes."
Zimbabwe and other African countries should stimulate debate on the global economic recession to generate strategies for mitigating its effects.
A French Appeal Court in Paris yesterday rejected the demand of the Transparency International (TI) organization for leave to open a probe in France into the estates of three African heads of state.
The award panel of the Mohammed Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership decided that it has no nominee this year worthy of the prize. This means there will be no winner for 2009 from among the shortlisted candidates. The panellists did not deem any of the nominees worthy enough for the princely $5 million prize.
A coalition of leading environmental pressure groups in Nigeria who met recently in Abuja to study the development initiative of US billionaire Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), land grabs and non-ecological agriculture have recommended that Africa should not be a dumping ground for unverified technologies such as genetically modified crops.
People's rights to work the land – an indispensable pre-condition for food security in Africa – are the subject of two key initiatives by international agencies working to improve agricultural production on the continent.
Ghana is seeking private investment in agri-business as part of it's national priority to achieve food security, minimise spending on imports and also to earn more from value added agricultural products.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana Mashabane will head to Egypt on Saturday for a summit with African and Chinese leaders aimed at expanding diplomatic and economic relations between the two continents.
After his efforts to unite Africa from the top political leadership seemed to hit a brick wall, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has changed tactics.
Headquartered in Nairobi Kenya and working across sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Latin America and Asia, the World Agroforestry Centre aims to enhance soil fertility and the livelihoods of poor families and communities by introducing – or improving the varieties of - nutrient providing trees into farm feeds. Dr. Dennis Garrity, Director General of the Centre, told AllAfrica that trees on ...
On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Africa will suffer consequences out of all proportion to its contribution to global warming, which is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy countries.
On the first day of the scientific program at the world's largest malaria conference, researchers, public health officials and policymakers took a hard look at current malaria interventions and presented evidence on what more must be done to improve access to proven methods by the world's poorest people. New research released at MIM highlighted the need for coordinated action by the malaria ...
IT IS back to square one for Country Bird after SA's third-largest poultry producer this week admitted it had failed in its bid for Sovereign Foods.
Various speakers at the second African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF), which began in Lagos yesterday, have called for an integration of the old and new media in presenting information to the people of the continent.
