In the run-up to the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy later this week, the Financial Times has published information on how these world leaders intend to address global fod security issues.
A draft of the G8’s declaration notes that:
The combined effect of long-standing underinvestment in agriculture and food security, price trends, and the economic crisis have
Farming First’s Dr. Lindiwe Sibanda explained how agriculture can play a central role in African development in an article published today in the Guardian online.
In the wake of the recent G8 Agricultural Ministers meeting, Dr. Sibanda asked the fundamental question, “So what can Africans do to put food on the table and money in their
The first ever meeting of G8 agriculture ministers in Italy last weekend recognised the real difficulties facing the world in feeding itself. But the G8 ministers admitted they are “very far from reaching” the UN target of halving the number of people experiencing chronic hunger by 2015. The UN told the G8 that the number
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
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
Farming First’s Ajay Vashee discussed how protectionism in the agricultural marketplace impacts global food security and the development goals of the G8 countries for smallholder farmers around the world.
Vashee notes that much of the agricultural products grown in Africa — when not being eaten directly by the farmers themselves — is destined for the export
