After soybeans and corn, on September, the National Technical Commission on Biosecurity, CNT Bio, approved the commercialization of a genetic modified variety of bean. Beans are one of the most...
Extreme poverty, hunger and starvation is concentrated on marginalised rural areas in Gambia. Most rural people earn their income as small holder farmers.Smallholder women farmers in Gambia have...
What do you do with a degree in Agriculture after five years of study? Here is a viable business option for the smart: go into the business of terrorism, it pays better. At least that’s...
While traveling through Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda and various remote tropical islands in the Banda Sea/Indonesia I've been looking, listening and learning about people's farming techniques. And...
“To me, food production only took place in the big field. With a lot of persuasion from my neighbours, I started to grow on a kitchen garden and now I see the backyard strengthen our food security...
Winston Churchill famously referred to Uganda as the pearl of Africa because of our ever green vegetation, water bodies, mountains, and weather. This is a source of great pride for many...
"It is better to die fighting than to die in hunger" Margarida Alves.
With the motto “for a sustainable development with justice, autonomy, equity and freedom” 70.000 rural women from all...
Learning is a continuous process! I had yet another during a meeting in Katakwi. It was a sharing between farmers from Uganda with Hannah and Tina, farmers from Australia. Being an aspiring...
I have to say from the onset that am not an activist as such…..in fact I don’t have the grace, power and consistency to be one but I am a social noisemaker.I really get bothered by social evils...
Basically, I am a lazy person and always have so many excuses to avoid work because I fear failing. I had a life changing experience by meeting a farmer. He has changed my morals and perception about...
