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 …
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 …
The fruitful future of artificial insemination in Tanzania
Changa moto. It’s Yvonne Robben who brings up this Swahili expression. For Farming Africa she wrote this story about the challenges in …
Best farmers of Uganda and Netherlands exchange passion
Farming is about passion. That’s the drive of those ten farmers from Uganda and that’s what brought them to the Netherlands. One …
‘Farmers around the world, don’t squander your market power!’
Diligently Pieter Wijnen told to an international audience about the Dutch horticulture in general and his own pepper nursery in particular. In …
Cool Farmer from ‘Farmer Wants a Wife’ in Tanzania
On West Kilimanjaro Tanzania, there lives a cool Dutch farmer. The tv showed his romances in ‘Farmer wants a wife’. Farming Africa visited him …
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 …
Let’s turn Africa around
2015 will be the year that Africa grows out of extreme poverty. At least: a start will be made. In many places, …
Enough calories, plenty of malnutrition
Not hunger is the biggest problem on the countryside, but malnutrition. A revolutionary insight that only broke through internationally in 2014.
E4D-tour to Tanzania was a great success
All 18 participants of the E4D-tour are unanimous: The Exposure 4 Development tour to Tanzania was a great success.
Farming Africa goes Tanzania
Hurry! I go to Tanzania! Together with 15 other agricultural journalists I will be on the Exposure-4-Development Media Tour. A tour organised …