By Tukeni Obasi The World Food Day tradition dates back to the 1979 Conference of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). It was instituted with the aim of raising global awareness of the twin problems of hunger and malnutrition and ultimately addressing poverty and its implications for...

By Tukeni Obasi In the Anglophone North-Western region of Cameroon, when the eldest girl-child in the family gets married, one of her younger sisters is sent to live with her and help her begin her home. This was the story of Patience Mbah Atim, the seventh of eight children in the Atim...

By Tukeni Obasi Malawi has become a role model in African agriculture for a number of reasons, one of which is the efforts the late president made to transform the country into a grain-exporting country. As the agricultural sector struggles to thrive under the new dispensation, some young...

By Tukeni Obasi On August 6, 2012, three fellows at the Harambe Incubator for Sustainable and Rural Development (HISARD) embarked on an initiative to improve the practice of agriculture in a rural farming community in Osun State. The team comprised Rita Oladokun, a student of agricultural...