As a fruit, bananas could justifiably claim to be the best of the bunch. Packed with vitamins, minerals and energy-rich carbohydrate, bananas are the best-selling fruit in the world earning around US$5 billion each year.
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Paula Bramel, the Deputy Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture explains her organisation’s contribution to food security.
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Fighting Africa’s food crisis.
Using science to fight Africa’s food crisis. CNN’s Christian Purefoy reports from Nigeria.
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Africa presented a “fantastic opportunity” to complement and stabilize the global food system with small-farmer production in ways not foreseen at present, Hartmann said on Friday, 9 May 2008, during a press conference at the United Nation’s Headquarters in New York, in line with the 16th Session of the UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) which runs from 5-16 May 2008.
IITA, Kampala, Uganda – The best and the brightest minds in banana research and industry from all over Africa will converge in Kenya later this year to develop a 10-year strategic roadmap that would harmonize and guide efforts to promote the marketing and trade of the crop in the continent
Hugh Levinson asks whether science and technology can provide the key to ending under-development in Africa.
Peasant farmers in Malawi, one of Africa’s poorest nations, rely on subsistence farming. Malawian agriculture has experienced extreme weather in recent years El-Nino drought, floods, etc., making the food supply situation precarious.
More than two million Musa seedlings – covering 1,300 hectares and worth $2.5 million annually to the farming economy of Ghana – were propagated and distributed to banana and plantain farmers here in a rapid two-year time-frame
