by josiahmwd | Nov 26, 2018 | World Food Bank Team
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...
by josiahmwd | Nov 24, 2018 | International
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...
by josiahmwd | Nov 20, 2018 | Partners
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...
by josiahmwd | Nov 16, 2018 | News
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...
by josiahmwd | Oct 17, 2018 | International
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...
