By Esther Ngumbi and Sam Dindi After a prolonged drought season, many African countries are now grappling with heavy rains and floods. The excess water flow is damaging infrastructure and causing deaths, hurting these countries’ economies in the process. In…
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By Esther Ngumbi Healthy soils are necessary to produce healthy food and achieve sustainable global food security. They also are a useful resource in the fight against climate change, as they absorb carbon from the air and store it. Recognizing these…
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By Esther Ngumbi Achieving and fulfilling the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) overwhelmingly depends on making progress in rural areas, where most of the hungry and poor live. This was the main conclusion of the new report “The State of Food and…
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By Esther Ngumbi All over Africa, countries are battling fall armyworms. These crop-eating larval caterpillars are ravaging food supplies and posing major geopolitical challenges on the continent. Because the worms feed on over 80 plant species and develop into moths that…
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By Esther Ngumbi Soil is everything. It is the foundation of life and it is the base upon which we grow our crops. We must protect it. As José Graziano da Silva, director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United…
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