As I sit down to write this post, I have just arrived at the Tanzanian / Malawi border. A journey of 1,600 Kilometers and Malawi just like other African countries is not exempt from the effects of...
I have had a chance to drive across Tanzania - the largest country in East Africa - on the Trans African Caravan of Hope. The journey from Dar es Salaam to the border crossing Tanzania-Malawi is...
An obsession with instant profits and short-term thinking lies behind the current financial crisis, which is deepening by the day. The obvious solution would seem to lie in strategic investments that...
In 2006, Sun Biofuels arrived in Kisarawe District and took land the size of 11,000 football pitches to establish a jatropha plantation - a crop that is grown for biofuels (above). 13-year-old Mariam...
It is World Food Week and between now and the end of the year the world’s leaders will meet for the G20 in Cannes and COP here in South Africa. There has never been a more crucial time to make a...
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...
Once again, a part of the world teeters on the brink of a catastrophe that sees the poorest and most vulnerable – mainly women and children – hardest hit. The food crisis and drought in East Africa...
In Gambella village, the first person I meet is Koye Sersera. Koye is 71 years old and lives with her husband and five grandchildren. The family share a tiny one-roomed hut, made from...
As we reach Camp-Garba Dispensary at the Catholic Mission of St Antioconear Isiolo town, there are more than a hundred women with their babies and young children waiting in the compound. From afar it...
As the drought worsens in Northern Kenya, its effects become more pronounced on women and girls. Water scarcity compromises hygiene especially for girls and women as the little water available is...
