The Barsha pump: a revolutionairy innovation that makes water run uphill
Water is life. Motion is energy. This means: running water is life and energy. With this vision and some technical skills, a …
Eat insects, like they do in Africa
Prepare yourself for eating insects! The world population will increase up to 9.6 billion people by 2050, as you might know. There will …
Cities Need Small Farmers
Wealth is rising and African cities are mounting. Food is crucial for those flourishing cities and agriculture is the major contributor to …
Farming Africa welcomes Ghanaian agricultural journalists
Agricultural journalists are watchdogs, not only for freedom of speech, but also for another basic human right: being free from hunger. Both …
Kenyan agriculture dislocates residents
A proposal by the Kenyan agriculture ministry seeks to move people from their land to town estates in a bid to create …
Local seed slows down development
The poor quality of the seed at the local markets in Africa is an underestimated problem. It slows down farming and food …
Scholarship for congress Hidden Hunger
The second international congress ‘Hidden Hunger’ takes place in Stuttgart, Germany. Not a place with hidden hunger. People coming from regions which …
Organic is NOT only for the rich
In many places in the world, knowledge of pesticides is scarce, which makes it unhealthy and even dangerous. In those places, also …
Ethiopian plow wins $25.000
If you want to see how farmers ploughed their fields for about 1000 years ago, go to Ethiopia. There you can still …
Get rich in Ethiopia
Three Dutch companies where registered in Ethiopia in 2003. Ten years later we count 89.
Africans don’t work for money but for community
Ubuntu. If not the profit, but the value for the whole community is leading, as in Africa, a company is much different