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

By: Isabel Malsang Date: November 13th 2016 Source: AFP Paris (AFP) - Diplomatic wrangling this week will make the headlines in the fight against climate change, but experts say a bigger but largely unseen battle is set to unfold on the world's farms. Agriculture holds the double distinction of

Fern and Transparency International (TI) welcome the European Parliament resolution adopted on 7 June 2016, calling on the European Union (EU) to halt its support to the 

By: John Vidal Date: September 26th 2016 Source: The Guardian Deals would put the majority of seeds, chemicals and GM traits in the hands of three companies, deepening poverty for small-scale farmers

By: Seth J. Bokpe Date: August 31st 2016 Source: Graphic.com Ghana needs to regulate and limit the size of land companies can acquire for any purposes, including real estate and agriculture.  This was the view of participants in a workshop to disseminate the findings of a research on large-

Date:November 16th 2016 Source: FAO Press Office FAO unveils new global framework for action on water scarcity at COP22 summit 16 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco-The world must rapidly move to scale up actions and ambitions on climate change FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told