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African Faith Leaders Demand Reparations from Gates Foundation
By Ezaruku Draku Franklin The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has accused AGRA (formerly the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) of using its outsized power to exert undue influence on local, national and continental policymaking. The briefing paper, “Pulling Back the Veil: AGRA’s Influence on Africa’s Agricultural Policies,” exposed how AGRA uses…
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COP27 falls short of practical solutions – Slow Foods
By Ezaruku Draku Franklin The Slow Foods, a worldwide network of local communities to counteract the disappearance of local food traditions has warned that the COP27 that was meant to be the “Implementation COP”, has fallen short of the expectations and that, existing pledges and national plans remain insufficient to reach the Paris agreement 1.5-degree…
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Growing Food Insecurity – An African Existential Threat Government Must Plan for.
Samuel Obedgiu The food and agricultural organization (FAO) estimates that since the global population will be 9 billion by the year 2050, we need 70% more food production by 2050 than we have now. Most of the global population by 2050 will certainly be in Africa. But when one analyses our current strategic planning objectives,…
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Restore Africa Programme sets targets to plant1.9 million hectares of trees.
Officials of Restore Africa Programme adrdessing a press conference in Kampala
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Living in harmony with nature: Frontier park communities embrace agriculture to earn incomes
A bee hive near Queen Elizabeth National Park
Africa Planet Watch 