The hype around digital tools can divert attention from farmers’ real, on-the-ground challenges.
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For Nigeria to feed its growing population efficiently and support food production by small farm holders, investment in rural infrastructure is key.
The ex-combatants’ food memories show how they continue trying to make sense of both their past and present experiences of violence.
South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
Land reform programme has done very little to improve access to land for black South Africans.
Outdated water permit systems are threatening food security on the continent. Here’s what can be done.
After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
Book on agricultural innovation has had key policy impacts at the micro and macro level.
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