How Technology is Helping Farmers in Ghana
By: Danica Lo
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Food and Wine
Crowdsourcing and contracts help smallholder farmers in Ghana and Kenya.
There are 2, 499 content items of different types and languages related to agricultural land management on the Land Portal.
Fiji: Land and water resources management identified to achieve sustainable food security
By: Swastika Singh
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Fijivillage.com
Different varieties of dalo, yams, cassava and sweet potatoes are some of the climate change resilient crops.
Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Jitendra Singh says to achieve sustainable food security, land and water resources management has been identified as one of the priority areas.
Rwanda’s longest drought in six decades: The effects on food security and lessons learnt
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: New Times
Sitting in the doorway of her residential house in the remote Murundi Sector, Kayonza District in Eastern Province, Verena Uwineza is sorting beans for evening meal on a traditional basket.
It is Monday, September 12. By most accounts, everybody has been affected by prolonged drought in this area.
Ireland: Land is wetter and less productive - and we only have ourselves to blame
By: Richard Hackett
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: The Independent.ie
Normally at this time of year, while the harvest is still being wrapped up, thoughts rapidly turn to the next cropping season.
Ethiopia: Beans - a Mighty Tool in the Fight for Food Security
By: Mahmoud Solh
Date: August 26th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Al Jazeera
In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, farmers have given up on one of their staple crops. "Once our village was a major producer of faba bean," says farmer Yeshewalul Tilaye, from the Chichet village of Tarma Ber, "but we lost hope."
Rwanda's leaders must challenge outdated beliefs and give women truly equal rights to land
By: Betty Mutesi (International Alert)
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rwanda's women have equal rights in law. But the government and regular Rwandans must confront the country's systems of discrimination
In rural Rwanda, as in most developing countries, owning and controlling land determines whether you are rich or poor. In a country where some 57% of the population live below the poverty line, land is a prime resource.
Philippine Sugar Farmers Facing Another ’Dead Season’ Turn to Government for Help
Tiempo Muerto, or “The Dead Season,” visits sugar plantations across the Philippines, when many farmers struggle with hunger and deprivation because there’s no work during this off-milling period of the year. The season can be so brutal on farmers that more than a quarter of a million people—a whopping 385,000 sugar workers, known as “sakada”—are affected on Negros Island alone.
Agriculture needs a makeover to lure young people back to farming
By: Magdalena Mis and Isaiah Esipisu
Date: August 22nd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Around the world, farmers are ageing as the sector fails to attract younger talent who head instead to cities in search of work
ROME/NAIROBI, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Kenyan farmer Pauline Wafula, there was never a question that her children would have to get their hands dirty and learn how to grow their own food.
Ivory Coast drives thousands of cocoa farmers out of national park
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Ange Aboa
Ivorian security forces have driven thousands of cocoa farmers out of a national park this week at the start of an operation to preserve the refuge for endangered chimpanzees and forest elephants, a government source and locals said on Thursday.
Food security: Asia’s critical balancing act
By: R. Quentin Grafton and John Williams, ANU, and Qiang Jiang, Sichuan University
Date: February 2nd 2016
Source: East Asia Forum
Asia’s food systems are under an unprecedented confluence of pressures. Balancing future food demand and supply in ways that protect the most vulnerable, while also being sustainable, must be a first order policy priority.
Consultant needed support data analysis and report-writing for baseline survey on Land and Corruption in Africa
Application Closing Date - 08 Nov 2015
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Duration - 25 days
Location - Berlin/remote
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