Cue: It?s widely acknowledged that HIV and AIDS pose an enormous threat to food production in many of Africa?s agriculture-dependent countries. For anyone to die from AIDS is a tragedy, but in Africa, many of those who are dying are the backbone of the farming labour force. How can those who are left behind, the very old, the very young, the widows and the orphans, manage to grow the crops they require for their own food and income needs? One answer, being promoted by the NGO Africare, is the use of labour saving technologies, that allow cultivation of sufficient areas of land with much less human labour than has been needed in the past. Africare has designed new implements, such as ploughs, planters and harvesters, which can be operated e...
Agroforestry for food security Cue: In Zambia?s Central Province, slash and burn, or shifting cult...
Earlier this year, South Sudan fell victim to the first famine declared since 2011. Almost six milli...
Agriculture is back at the top of Africa's development agenda, enjoying the support of governments a...
Agricultural support to combat AIDS Cue: In the early stages of the AIDS pandemic in Africa, the m...
Cue: In 1999 the Kenyan government declared the spread of HIV/AIDS a national disaster. As a result...
Caring for the sick and orphans Cue: Women in Africa have always had a heavy workload, but few wou...
Cue: Lack of food security is a recurring nightmare for many African countries ? their governments a...
Cue: One major impact of AIDS and HIV on farming communities has been a devastating loss of manpowe...
Cue: One of the tragedies of the AIDS pandemic is that some of those who know they are HIV positive...
Building on food security Cue: If small-scale farmers aren?t even able to grow enough food for thei...
The red ribbon has become a worldwide symbol for mourning a death from AIDS, a disease whose impact ...
AIDS remains a major problem in Kenya, and it is often women and girls who bear the brunt of the pan...
Malcolm Blackie works as a field scientist for the Rockefeller Foundation, supporting agricultural r...
In a world used to thinking in terms of historical epochs and timelines, South Africa is supposed to...
Outlines the "change levers" of the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations' 2006 initiat...
Agroforestry for food security Cue: In Zambia?s Central Province, slash and burn, or shifting cult...
Earlier this year, South Sudan fell victim to the first famine declared since 2011. Almost six milli...
Agriculture is back at the top of Africa's development agenda, enjoying the support of governments a...
Agricultural support to combat AIDS Cue: In the early stages of the AIDS pandemic in Africa, the m...
Cue: In 1999 the Kenyan government declared the spread of HIV/AIDS a national disaster. As a result...
Caring for the sick and orphans Cue: Women in Africa have always had a heavy workload, but few wou...
Cue: Lack of food security is a recurring nightmare for many African countries ? their governments a...
Cue: One major impact of AIDS and HIV on farming communities has been a devastating loss of manpowe...
Cue: One of the tragedies of the AIDS pandemic is that some of those who know they are HIV positive...
Building on food security Cue: If small-scale farmers aren?t even able to grow enough food for thei...
The red ribbon has become a worldwide symbol for mourning a death from AIDS, a disease whose impact ...
AIDS remains a major problem in Kenya, and it is often women and girls who bear the brunt of the pan...
Malcolm Blackie works as a field scientist for the Rockefeller Foundation, supporting agricultural r...
In a world used to thinking in terms of historical epochs and timelines, South Africa is supposed to...
Outlines the "change levers" of the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations' 2006 initiat...
Agroforestry for food security Cue: In Zambia?s Central Province, slash and burn, or shifting cult...
Earlier this year, South Sudan fell victim to the first famine declared since 2011. Almost six milli...
Agriculture is back at the top of Africa's development agenda, enjoying the support of governments a...