Africa feels the negative economic waves of COVID -19 outbreak. The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus is having a negative economic impact on Africa, an effect that is…
Catégorie : AA Agriculture
Traditional seeds under threat
By Stephen Appraku0In farming communities in Burkina Faso, seeds are used, propagated, bred and traded according to an elaborated traditional system. But this system is increasingly under threat: international seed corporations are…
Seeds in Africa, future of farmer seed system at risk?
By Stephen Appraku0A raft of changes occasioned by global interventions in African countries has taken the control of seeds from the African farmer into the hands of commercial seed conglomerates leaving the…
After floods, an early ‘lean season’ awaits South Sudan
By Stephen Appraku0‘There will be serious food shortage as early as January 2020.’ South Sudan in the midst of all its political turmoil must brace itself for food shortage the result of…