Pope Benedict XVI has issued an his third encyclical calling for a restructured global economy. In it, he also calls for an increased role for agricultural investment in helping to alleviate hunger and poverty in the developing world.
An article by the Associated Press says that the Pope:
specified that aid should go to agicultural development to
IFDC has joined the group of organisations supporting the Farming First plan.
IFDC – an International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development – is a public international organization addressing critical issues such as international food security, the alleviation of global poverty, environmental protection and the promotion of economic development and self-sufficiency. IFDC is helping to
With its high-quality milk, Nairobi-based Brookside Dairy has a 40 per cent share of the Kenyan dairy market. Seven per cent of its 80,000 suppliers are commercial farmers and the remainder are small-scale producers.
The widespread lack of refrigeration facilities means that Brookside employs an army of delivery personnel, including more than 1,000 “bicycle boys” in
