Today on World Water Day UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addressed the central role of water in global development, saying: “We must work together to protect and carefully manage this essential and finite resource […] Let us harness the best technologies and share the best practices to get more crop per drop.”
This year, the major

Friday 8th March is International Women’s Day and Farming First will be highlighting the vital role women play in food security throughout the week.
Female farmers still face many barriers that prevent them from increasing yields and making a sustainable living from their farm. In many societies law and tradition bar women from owning and inheriting land,