By Danielle Nierenberg* BAKU, Azerbaijan | 17 November 2024 (IDN) — We talk a lot about storytelling here at Food Tank, and for good reason: The stories we tell matter. They shape how we approach interacting with our neighbors, transforming systems, and building a better world. The question of who tells our stories matters, too! […]
What Promotion and Cultivation of Millet Means for Africa’s Food Security
By Shmuel Ja’Mba Abm* ACCRA, Ghana | 8 November 2024 (IDN) — The year 2023 was the year millet was declared by the United Nations as the Crop of the Year. Apart from its nutritional values, scientists have discovered, that millet doesn’t only reverse diabetes (type II) but it also prevents the onset of diabetes. […]
On World Food Day, We Should Have Remembered the People of Gaza
By Anuradha Mittal* OAKLAND, California | 17 October 2024 (IDN) — It has been 43 years since the World Food Day was first celebrated on October 16, 1981, following United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) establishing the day in 1979 to raise awareness about hunger and promote action to end it. In 2024, when […]
Up to 21,000 Maybe Dying Daily from Conflict-Fuelled Hunger, New Report Warns
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 16 October 2024 (IDN) — As some of the world’s ongoing conflicts, including Russia vs Ukraine and Israel vs Hamas keep escalating, the continued battles are having a devastating impact on rising hunger and food shortages. Up to 21,000 people are dying each day from conflict-fuelled hunger around the […]
Africa: Agricultural Future Lies in Agroecology
By Million Belay* This article was orignally published in a dossier from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Alameda. BRUSSELS | ADDIS ABABA | 5 September 2024 (IDN) — A premise which has its roots in traditional knowledge and ecological principles, some people may find the term agroecology mysterious or esoteric. However, far from being an […]
El Niño Forecasts Can Give Early Warning of Crop Failures
By Dr Weston Anderson The writer is assistant research professor at the University of Maryland. This guest post was issued by Carbon Brief MARYLAND, USA | 31 August 2024 (IDN) — Extreme weather is one of the primary drivers of crop failures around the world. Crop failures—the total or near-total loss of a farm or […]
Bangladesh: Women Pave the Way for Sustainable Agriculture
By Rafiqul Islam Montu ASSASHUNI, Bangladesh | 14 August 2024 (IDN) — Martha Achary, 45, and her team members were irrigating the agricultural farm one winter morning in November. The farm is surrounded and covered with blue thick netting. Adjacent to the farm are two large water drums; In which 5000 liters of water was […]
Indigenous Peoples: An Antidote in A World of Crisis
Equator Prize winners announced By Jamison Ervin and Anna Giulia Medri* NEW YORK | 9 August 2024 (IDN) — This year’s Equator Prize winners are the antidote we need in a world of crisis. Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum released its annual Risk Report. The key findings highlighted the inescapable trend over the […]
Global Hunger Persists at High Rates — UN Target Missed
By Jaya Ramachandran ROME | 4 August 2024 (IDN) — “Zero Hunger” is second of the ambitious 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders at an historic summit in September 2015. These were to be achieved by 2030. But the distressing fact is that global hunger persists at high rates: one in eleven […]
Bringing Local Sustainable Development to Scale
By Yossef Ben-Meir* MARRAKECH, Morocco | 22 July 2024 (IDN) — For many organizations and agencies around the world, the matter of scaling local successes of development remains a seemingly insurmountable challenge and obligation. When participating in conferences, strategic planning, open forums, and studies on this critical necessity, so much of the consideration is focused […]