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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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Northern Uganda farmers get simplified food standards manual.
By Ezaruku Draku Franklin The Uganda National Bureau of Standards has simplified food standards into easy-to-use guidelines and translated them to local languages in Alur and Acholi to ease uptake and implementation of standards by Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. With support from Advance Afrika under the Action for Livelihood Enhancement in Northern Uganda (ALENU)…
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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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Slow Food asks COP27 to turn away from false solutions regarding food systems
By Ezaruku Draku Franklin Slow Food, a worldwide network of local communities to counteract the disappearance of local food traditions and the spread of fast food culture has raised the alarm about the serious lack of progress toward tackling the impact of food and agriculture on climate and building a resilient food system. A Slow…
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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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A new taxation systems gives hope to Africa, sets ground to collect taxes on online sales
By Ezaruku Draku Franklin What you need to know Companies in the extractives and regulated financial services sectors are excluded. Currently, it is estimated that US$100 billion to US$240 billion (Shs355 – 850 trillion) — 4% to 10% of global corporate income taxes in revenue is lost each year because MNEs take advantage of gaps…
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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
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296 Ugandan SMEs win Tony Elumelu Foundation funds
Tony Elumelu, (third left) with some of the recipients of $5000 business development funds
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