FANRPAN, Featured
No Development Without Agriculture
Without agricultural development at the core of Africa’s progress, there will be no development on the continent.
FANRPAN, Featured
Using Water Efficiently for a Better Life
God is not making any new water. It will not rain anymore in the Limpopo Basin.
FANRPAN, Featured
Research Findings not Getting to Farmers
Farmers could be losing tonnes of crops every harvest just because no one has bothered to tell them ...
FANRPAN, Featured, Podcasts
Livestock and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Delegates at FANRPAN's annual regional policy dialogue speak to Zenzele Ndebele about livestock and greenhouse gas emissions.
FANRPAN, Featured
Mozambique Recognised For Agriculture Policies
"In Mozambique, agriculture is essential for economic growth, because the sector employs 80 percent of the labour force." - FANRPAN Chair Sindiso Ngwenya
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Conferences, FANRPAN
Women Farmers Take Centre Stage
Posted on 04 September 2009
Take your seats: the curtain has risen on a fresh strategy to link small farmers and policy-makers across Southern Africa. Theatre has been chosen as the means to explain agricultural policy to rural areas, and carry voices from the countryside back to the seats of power.
Conferences, FANRPAN
Dramatising Women Farmers’ Struggles
Posted on 04 September 2009
Theatre and agriculture are two words not often seen together. But they are stepping out in tandem across Southern Africa in support of raising farm productivity and incomes. A play that will soon be put on for rural people and policy-makers alike was performed in Maputo at the week-long dialogue on agriculture policy organised by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN).
COLUMNS
Columns, FANRPAN
Pinpointing the Impact of Agriculture on the Economy
Posted on 03 September 2009
In Mozambique, differences in rainfall contribute to higher levels of poverty in drier areas. Poverty levels in drier regions range from 67 to 85 percent, said Professor Firmino Mucavele, Director for Academic Reform and Regional Integration at Eduardo Mondlane University. He was presenting his analysis of agriculture’s true contribution to the Mozambican economy.
Columns, FANRPAN
Parliament’s Role in Climate Change
Posted on 02 September 2009
From Cape Town to Cairo, Nairobi to Accra, the climate change story is not reverberating on the streets. It is a story echoing in international conference rooms of five star hotels and in the boardrooms of elite non-governmental organisations. The few bureaucrats who understand the issues don’t usually come out of their boardrooms to debate the subject. And hence, the man on the street is completely out of the picture.
INTERVIEWS
FANRPAN, Interviews
Managing An Unpredictable Environment
Posted on 03 September 2009
Hanson Tamfu interviews AMY SULLIVAN, Limpopo Basin Focal Project The water available in the Limpopo River basin, which stretches across Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Mozambique, is both in great demand and highly variable. Managing it effectively and to the satisfaction of all users is a challenge. Dr Amy Sullivan is the project leader of the Limpopo Basin Focal Project.
FANRPAN, Interviews
The Big Race is the Copenhagen One
Posted on 01 September 2009
Africa has contributed the least to climate change but the continent has suffered the most...
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