The ‘Future of Food‘ is 3-part BBC television programme looking at how food production is going to have to evolve to adapt to increased global demand and less reliable access to key resources such as water and oil.
The programme host visits farmers in India, Cuba, the UK to look at how key issues such as
Ahead of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development in May, Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda of Farming First went into the BBC studios to discuss what the priority objectives for agricultural policy should be in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Sibanda discussed the key principle of the Farming First plan as well as highlighting recent work of her own
In May 2009, Farming First (www.farmingfirst.org) interviewed Mr. Idrissa Mwale, Principal Economist at the Ministry of Agriculture in Malawi. Mr. Mwale has coordinated the country’s farm subsidy programme, which targets the most needy farming households with subsidised seed and fertilizer. The programme has produced record harvests over the past four years, which have
At the end of the G8 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting from 18-20 April, Farming First’s Dr. Lindiwe Sibanda discussed the impacts for African agriculture and development with the the BBC’s ‘Focus on Africa’ programme.
The G8 communique highlighted the fact that the world will need to increase its level of productivity in order to feed the growing
A creative project by the BBC World Service is tracking how food prices have been changing since the autumn of last year.
BBC journalists in 8 world cities — Brussels, Washington DC, Skopje, Moscow, Buenos Aries, Jakarta, Delhi, and Nairobi — have identified 5 staple foods for the area where they are based. On a
The BBC World Service’s flagship ‘World Today’ news programme interviewed Dr. Lindiwe Sibanda to hear her thoughts on global food security and the emerging outcomes of the G8 agriculture ministers’ meeting, which occurred in Italy from April 18-20.
Dr. Sibanda noted that food shortages in certain parts of the world were unavoidable. Noentheless, policy experts
