Almost 80 million smallholder farmers in Africa, supply about 80 percent of its food. In order for Africa to establish a prosperous and sustainable economic future, the voices of its farmers must be amplified.

To enable this, journalists from across the West Africa region attended a media workshop in Accra, Ghana, hosted by Inter Press Service IPS Africa on behalf of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

The workshop aimed to build the capacity of local journalists and editors from West and Central Africa to gain the skills and knowledge they need to report on the food crisis and how it can be solved, particularly with the contribution of smallholder farmers. Read more »

December 1, 2009, Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa, with partnership support from UNICEF, today launched a new thematic project to raise the voice and visibility of children and adolescents in the global fight against HIV/AIDS.

The IPS Africa editorial project will include regular uploads of print and radio stories, slideshows and resources for journalists and media covering the pandemic.
“Children remain the hidden face of AIDS and IPS Africa aims to provide a platform for them to tell their stories,” said IPS Africa Regional Director Paula Fray. Read more »

01 September 2009, Maputo, Mozambique - Ahead of the Food and Agriculture Natural Resources Policy Advocacy Network’s (FANRPAN) annual regional policy dialogue, journalists from as far afield as Sierra Leone and Benin joined their Southern African counterparts a training workshop jointly organised by FANRPAN and Inter Press Service Africa. Read more »

The website is part of a major global media and communication project of IPS running through 2009 - 2011 called “Communicating for Change: Getting Voice, Visibility and Impact for Gender Equality“.

The project is financed by the Dutch MDG3 Fund set up by the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, Bert Koenders, to finance activities that advance Millennium Development Goal 3: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Read more »

Adhemar Gabriel Bahadian, Brazilian
Ambassador in Italy, representing his country, and Mario Lubetkin, IPS Director General, signed an agreement on Tuesday 10 March in Rome.

Brazil has signed a new agreement to support IPS activities, especially to strengthen information flows among countries in the South recognising the changing global geography of power. There is a special focus on communication from and between three major democracies in the South: India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA).

The South American country has been a member of the IPS Core Group of donors since 2005. It is the main country of the South in this group, Read more »