As the discussion on farm size continues to grow from Stephen Carr’s blog post on farm size, Carr responds to comments: “I find the snippets from pro large-farm comments lack an apparent awareness of the real issues…”
The debate about farm size in Africa, kicked off by Stephen Carr’s blog post “African Agriculture: Does farm size really matter,” has sparked discussions far beyond the “size” issue. With over 100 comments generated on LinkedIn, we’d like…
Will 2013 be pinpointed as the year in which Africa’s ‘Green Revolution’ finally took root? It marks the tenth anniversaries of the 2003 Maputo Declaration and the resulting Africa-led Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP…
What ever happened to jatropha? Is the wonder biofuel that crashed back on the up? And should we care? Jatropha farmers in Senegal. Photo Credit: Treesftf on Flickr Last July, while visiting Liberia, I met a local man who said he was a “recruiter
The International Water Management Institute’s (IWMI) Mark Giordano has struck a chord recently with his presentations of why Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) might not always be the best approach to solving our water problems.
