Govt is confident it has brought an epidemic of viral disease that had affected the northern part of the country under control.

Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies.

Protecting the Nosivolo River’s biodiversity has involved transforming the livelihoods of local people.

Holding her one-year-old son in one hand and a hoe in the other, Mary Kimani recounts with bitterness how she lost her livelihood upon her her husband’s death.

A Clean Development Mechanism project – Ethiopia’s first – is restoring the environment and sustaining livelihoods along with it.

Cooperation between developing countries took another step forward with the signing of international agreements in Brazil aimed at stimulating public policies to support small farmers.

South African retail giants are expanding their stake in Zimbabwe; but while champagne corks pop in the boardroom, employees are not upbeat.

Steadily rising food costs, along with the government’s seeming disinclination to take effective steps to regulate the market, continue to be the source of mounting public anger.

They spent the better part of their lives destroying the forest, but Kochito Gabre and his cohort are now its guardians.

The United States government’s policy to double agricultural exports shows that it “has learnt nothing” from the last food crisis.

Dams, sugarcane plantations and rapidly growing population threatened the health of the Kafue Flats.

Tens of thousands in urgent need of food aid are set to go without as a donor shortfall restricts assistance.

The Slow Food Movement tackles diverse issues including land-grabs, biodiversity, and school lunches.

Inadequate access to water, recurring floods and droughts as well as a lack of political will to invest in small-scale agriculture perpetuate hunger across Africa, the continent’s food security experts say.

“I think I am successful now,” says Fanta Jabbah. “I am able to take care of my three children and support my husband; now I have a say in my household.”