Building off our previous feature on the insurance sector in Africa’s agricultural value chain, we recently spoke with Joost van der Woerd of the Environmental Analysis & Remote Sensing (EARS) in the Netherlands. EARS works with MUIIS (which stands for Market-led, User-owned ICT4Ag-enabled Information Services), a project led by the Technical Center for Agricultural and […]
Recently, we wrote about on the many challenges of hidden hunger, focusing primarily on the ways micronutrient deficiencies impact children across the globe. Here we take another in-depth look at the issue through an interview with Nicole Coglianese, Senior Health and Nutrition Technical Advisor at Food for the Hungry. WFB: Nicole, how does the […]
Josephine Bienenama spent many years of her life working as a civil servant in her home country of Uganda. Recently retired from that work, she now divides her time between managing a local community school serving more than 100 local needy and orphaned children and overseeing a small team of farmers a her 1.5 acre […]
This month, World Food Bank CEO Richard Lackey and GFE Investor Justin Culver visited Thakara-Nithi County in Kenya, where they were heartily welcomed and given a personal tour of local food systems and producers by County Governor Muthomi Njuki. Governor Njuki is a supporter of the work the World Food Bank is doing to improve […]
Insurance enables smallholders to invest with confidence The following is a guest post by Paul Castle, Head of Communications at Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture Worldwide, millions of smallholders are facing the effects of climate change. Erratic rains, flood and drought threaten their livelihoods. Insurance can help them tackle these and other problems. The Syngenta […]
In 2017, Africa accounted for only two percent of global agricultural insurance, guaranteeing that most smallholder farmers would be at risk of losing their crops due to either drought or heavy rains. The Society of Actuaries emphasizes Africa’s little involvement with agricultural insurance compared to other continents in 2011, but that number is still significantly […]
We’re pleased to report that Season 2 is underway at our Mbarara Farm in Uganda! This season we have planted soya seeds at the farm through a combination of hand and machine planting, and so far, with weather predictions, we are expecting higher than average yields come harvest time. Our farm staff is making steady […]
Our CEO Richard Lackey was recently featured on the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Digital News program in an interview he gave during the Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg this month. During the interview, Richard discussed how Africa needs to embrace innovation in agriculture to ensure food security and to keep up with the continent’s growing […]
It’s finally here! Check out our CEO Richard Lackey speaking about the Zero Hunger Formula on the TedXWilmington Stage. The Zero Hunger Formula is a data-driven, nonprofit initiative sponsored by the World Food Bank with the goal of creating a linear algorithm that will forge a pathway to Zero Hunger on the planet by 2030. On the […]
If we could provide 500 million farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa with access to adequate storage systems for their crops, what result would we see? According to Jordan Dey of GrainPro, this one provision could very likely change the world. “If 500 million farmers could better store their food, they would not only be able to […]
