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iDE – Delivering the Latest Irrigation Technology Straight to the Farm
Background: Approximately 1.1 billion people in the world live on less than US$ 1 per day, 800 million of whom are small-holder farmers relying on subsistence agriculture for their livelihood. Moving...
View ArticleUN has ‘extreme confidence’ that climate change is man-made
A new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that it is 95% certain that climate change is man-made. Qin Dahe, co-chair of the working group, said: “Our...
View ArticleInnovative Young Farmer’s Cooperatives for Participatory Adaptation and...
Conservation agriculture offers a potential solution to the emerging challenges of natural resource degradation in the Indo-Gagnetic Plains. Whilst significant effort has gone into the development and...
View ArticleAdapting to Climate Change in New Zealand
Overview Trelinnoe Farm, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, is run with a focus on long-term sustainability. The 2007 drought experienced in the country and its financial effects was one factor that triggered a...
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Nicolas Mounard: The Business Case for Investing in Female Farmers
In this guest post, Nicolas Mounard, Managing Director of Twin & Twin Trading discusses a recent trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo that illustrated the powerful impact investing in female...
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Input Supply & Farm Service Centers in Ethiopia
30, 000 Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia have increased access to the inputs they need. Minda Ayalew, a farmer and customer of the new Bishoftu Farm Service Center became a farmer 5 years ago. He soon...
View ArticleAmalima Development Food Assistance Program, Zimbabwe
Expertise-sharing and community action towards better cultivation techniques to increase yields and food security. Amalima strengthens household and communal resilience by mobilizing people around...
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K+S KALI GMBH – Mobile Training Center for Smallholders, Uganda
Through the “Growth for Uganda” project, German fertilizer producing company K+S Kali works with the Sasakawa Africa Association to enable and promote knowledge transfer to Ugandan smallholders....
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Market Access, Tanzania – One Acre Fund
For farmers in the southern highlands of Tanzania, inexact market opportunities are the norm. There are no scales and hence no way to exactly determine quantity and price per bag. There are few...
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Maximizing Production for Coffee Farmers with Lime and Fertilizer – One Acre...
One Acre Fund established a coffee trial with 100 farmers in Nyamasheke district in 2010. In addition to receiving lime and fertilizer, farmers were trained on correct application and best practices in...
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Nat Robinson: Start-ups Transforming Smallholder Farmers’ Lives in Kenya
In this guest post, Nat Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Juhudi Kilimo highlights three innovative Kenyan start-ups, from solar pumps to credit companies that are helping to change the lives of...
View ArticleVideo: Kickstarting Inclusive Agribusiness in Malawi
Farming First TV interviewed Keith Polo, Managing Director of Tukula Farming Company, and Country Director at the Clinton Development Initiative, to find out more about the process that agribusinesses...
View ArticleVeneless Chimpesa: Why Agricultural Extension Matters
Bahkita Mkwingwiri from Balaka District in Malawi works with Gorta-Self Help Africa as a village-based farm adviser to lead farmers in Bisani village. She and Gorta-Self Help Africa extension agent...
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Kristin Davis: Helping Small Farmer Families Through Extension
In this guest post, Kristin Davis, Executive Secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) tells Farming First about a new tool to support agricultural extension agents around the...
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Julian Wolfson: The iDEal Way to Expand Drip Irrigation
In this guest post, the Chief Executive of iDE Europe details how technical assistance through a social enterprise is ensuring that drip irrigation is successful. Without the right knowledge or...
View ArticleLawrence Biyika Songa: The Cost of Climate Change for Ugandan Farmers
Q&A with Lawrence Biyika Songa, COP representative for Uganda At the COP22 conference on climate change, held in Marrakech in November, the spotlight fell squarely on Africa and the impact of...
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Bernard Giraud: Building Functional Forests that Help Indian Tribes Thrive
In this guest post, the President and Co-Founder of the Livelihoods Venture Bernard Giraud describes how restoring forests with the Adivasi tribes in India has helped tackle issues from poverty to...
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Yvette Ondachi: Helping Women Play A Pivotal Role in the Food Value Chain
Yvette Ondachi is the founder of Ojay Greene, a Kenyan agribusiness that connects rural farmers to urban markets. Ahead of International Women’s Day, she shares stories of the female farmers she works...
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Alexis Ellicott: Bringing Gender Parity to the Agricultural Inputs Sector
In this guest blog post, Alexis Ellicott, CNFA Chief of Party on the USAID/Agro-Inputs Project tells Farming First how women are being empowered to enter into the male-dominated sector. Women produce...
View ArticleTo End Hidden Hunger, Partnerships Across Sectors for Biofortification are Key
By Maggie Kamau-Biruri, Head of Partnerships at HarvestPlus. After more than a decade of steady decline, world hunger is again on the rise, according to a 2017 report from the UN’s Food and...
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