by josiahmwd | Aug 28, 2018 | Key Sectors
One of the fundamental goals in developing improved rural transportation systems in Sub-Saharan Africa is to create a link between smallholder farmers and major urban areas and their markets across the globe. Farmers who have access to transport are likely to have...
by josiahmwd | Aug 27, 2018 | Events
This September, World Food Bank President Scott Brown will speak at the Royal African Society’s event “SDG Zero Hunger: Driving agricultural transformation in Africa.” This event will be held on Thursday, September 13th in London and is presented by...
by josiahmwd | Aug 27, 2018 | News
Harvest season is underway for the World Food Bank at our Mbarara Farm in Uganda! Both our maize and our soya crops are outperforming expectations. Farmer training is still ongoing at the farm, and we are pleased to report that we’re now working with more than...
by josiahmwd | Aug 10, 2018 | International
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...
by josiahmwd | Aug 6, 2018 | News
We are excited to announce that our CEO Richard Lackey has been invited to join the Global Impact Investing Network’s IRIS Upgrade Working Group! IRIS is a data and research catalog of generally-accepted performance metrics used by a majority of impact investors. IRIS...
