This week, the world recognized key problems that are impacting communities everywhere. World Food Day and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty are, in our opinion, inextricably linked. World Food Day The month of October brings with it a harvest season in many countries as well as the reminder that the world has yet […]
Let’s say you were tasked with the job of lifting 100 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years. What would you do? Who would you talk to? What system, method, technology, tools would you use to get the job done? When we look at the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), we have been […]
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 […]
Today is End Poverty Day, and we invite our readers to consider how improving the world’s food systems can end both hunger and poverty. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80 percent of the region’s food is produced by smallholder, or family, farmers, the majority of whom are considered to be “extremely poor”. Under current agricultural systems, smallholder […]
A few weeks ago, our friends at The Rockefeller Foundation kicked off their #SolvableSDG campaign to mark the end of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The goal of this campaign was to poll the Rockefeller community and ask them to vote for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) they believed to be […]
Fresh off the heels of our first harvest this year, our team is back at it this week planting seeds for our second season. We began planting this week and will continue into next week. All of our seeds were inoculated with rhizobium and then planted within 6 hours of the treatment to capitalize on […]
As technology advances more rapidly than many of us can keep up, we look to invent practices and use devices that can move agriculture forward too. The Climate Action Programme states that “the African agricultural industry is currently facing a number of problems with low productivity,” and the issue is “compounded by climate change, a […]
On August 1, just seven months into the calendar year, our planet passed the point at which it is able to sustainably keep up with the population’s demands for natural resources. Known as Earth Overshoot Day, this milestone prompted one of the world’s largest banks, HSBC, to issue a warning that our planet is running […]
As we move into one of our harvest seasons this month in Uganda, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the large role that women play in our global food systems. At the World Food Bank, we are committed to ensuring that our work helps to empower and support women at the local […]
Nine days after planting the seeds at our farm in Uganda this spring, our team on the ground, led by our farm managers Daniel Murunga and Dan Kilimani, headed out into the field to inspect the germination process. At an initial glance, the team saw something troubling. Some of the seeds appeared to be showing […]
