Developments
From 1st January 2005 horticultural imports into the EU, as with all foodstuffs, will have to meet mandatory traceability requirements. Is Kenya ready, and what impact will it have on the estimated 50,000 smallholders involved in the horticultural export...
Communication to energise agriculture
Sub-Saharan Africa is most seriously affected by the so-called 'digital divide', but there are positive signs that some governments, international organizations and commercial companies are striving to bridge the gap...
The Global Crop Diversity Trust has recently achieved international independent organisation status and made its first grants, one of which will go to the N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry in Russia...
Support and security for small farmers in Mozambique
Individual small farmers lack commercial and political influence and power but experience in Mozambique suggests that when are joined in small farmer associations, their leverage is much greater. And if all the local associations are affiliated into a national 'association-of-associations', buyers, suppliers and policymakers start to take notice as was shown when UNAC, the National Association of Small Farmers was formed...
Eco-agriculture: producing food while conserving biodiversity
Odari, an elderly subsistence farmer in Western Kenya, needs fuel to cook but she cannot imagine cutting the branches of her tall eucalyptus tree, even though they damage the roof of her house. When once she cut branches to prevent them doing damage, she was arrested by the forest authorities and jailed for six months. However, her imprisonment led to an idea that has transformed...
