King of Fruit Reaps Few Rewards for Pakistani Farmers
In the summer heat, fresh mangos are the fruit of choice for politicians seeking to exchange favours with foreign dignitaries. But when it comes to global trade, the prospects of the so-called king of...
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Nepal’s Female Farmers Fear Climate Change
When Arati Chaudhary’s husband left for India to find work as a migrant labourer, the job of managing farm and family fell on her slender shoulders. Nepal is among the world’s most climate vulnerable...
View ArticleBack to the Future With Local Rice Seeds
By coaxing a bumper 3.2 tonnes of rice out of each acre on his organic farm in this district famed for its ancient Buddhist monasteries, Charitha Wijeratne has convincingly proved that using indigenous...
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Cilantro Spices Up Coexistence with Drought in Brazil
Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking...
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Youth Farmers Have Great Needs and Low Expectations from Rio+20
Ulvia Abdullayeva, from Ganja in western Azerbaijan, has come to Rio to deliver a simple but critical message to world leaders and her national authorities: small farmers need protection and financing....
View ArticleThai Farmers Fight ‘Global Warming Fines’
Small farmers in the Baan Pra village of Thailand’s southern Trang province have been living in anxiety ever since they were slapped with stiff fines by the government in 2006 and ordered to vacate...
View ArticleBeating the Weather With Sustainable Crops
Narrow, cobblestoned lanes separate the rows of mud houses with cool interiors and mud-smoothened patios, some with goats tethered to the wooden posts. This is Tajpura village, deep in this...
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Feed Europe, Feed the World
A huge moment for reform of the industrial farming system in Europe has many stakeholders on edge. Farmers who are feeling the crunch of rising input costs – from fertilisers to fuel – believe they can...
View ArticleMexico Could Say Goodbye to Imported Maize
It has been many years since Mexico, the birthplace of maize, has been self-sufficient in this staple food that plays a central role in its cuisine and culture. But new studies indicate that it could...
View ArticleReviving Family Farming in Angola, Carrot by Carrot
“We never used to eat carrots, but now we like them,” said Rebeca Soba, admiring her vegetable garden, an island of diversity in the midst of a vast sugarcane plantation. Vegetable gardening has been...
View ArticleA River Runs Dry in Tanzania
Avelina Elias Mkenda, a 52-year-old small-scale farmer in the Mbarali district of Tanzania’s southwestern Mbeya region, can sense a change in her environment. A resident of the Great Ruaha River basin,...
View ArticleFrom Brazil’s Family Farm to the School Lunchroom Table
Separating Maria Gomes Morais’ farm and a school in Rio de Janeiro are fields, hills and dirt roads that are impassable when it rains. But a school meal programme has forged a path linking the fresh...
View ArticleYouth Find a Future in Food Production
With little more than a bush knife and an axe between them, a group of young boys between the ages of nine and 18 years have taken food security into their own hands. In Kindu, a community of 5,000...
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Small Ponds Bring Bumper Harvests
A farmer in northwestern Bangladesh points to one of the newly dug ponds that are helping to boost food production. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS“I would never have believed it possible to get a bumper rice...
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Technology and Innovation Aim at Greater Food Security
Through a Feed the Future project in Kenya, smallholder farmers, particularly women, are introduced to high-value crops such as orange flesh sweet potatoes that can both boost household food security...
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Haitian Farmers Lauded for Food Sovereignty Work
Zanmi Agrikol farm/Friends of Agriculture, in Haiti's Bas-Plateau Central. Credit: Wadner Pierre/IPSWork by the Group of 4 (G4) union of Haitian peasant organisations, along with assistance from the...
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Farming Among the Waste in Cameroon
Smallholder farmers around the Yaounde city centre are increasingly farming on urban wastewater sites. Credit: Monde Kingsley Nfor/IPSBy Monde Kingsley NforYAOUNDÉ, Aug 30 2012 (IPS) Cameroonian urban...
View ArticleA Green Gold Mine in the Heart of the DRC Capital
By Anselme NkinsiKINSHASA, Sep 3 2012 (IPS) A disused cemetery in the heart of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been transformed into a profitable urban garden. Relying on...
View ArticleMalian Farmers Want Their Land Back
By Soumaila T. DiarraBAMAKO, Sep 12 2012 (IPS) A group of smallholder farmers in Mali have turned to the courts to try to recover land they say they have lost to big private investors. The legal action...
View ArticleGuinea Grows NERICA Rice to Reduce Dependence on Imports
By Moustapha KeitaCONAKRY, Sep 13 2012 (IPS) Kafoumba Koné sounds almost smug. “Our first rice harvest is in, and we’re getting ready to plant again,” he says, surveying his farm in southeastern...
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