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Why it’s important to understand the unique plight of internally displaced people in Africa
Villagers Brace for Another Displacement: This Time, It’s for Coal.
Why COP27 needs a more sophisticated debate about livestock and climate change
Grabbing land from black farmers and political opponents in Zimbabwe
Reimagining governance of the Commons in Cameroon
Malawi becomes the first country to open the IMF’s new ‘Food Shock Window’
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a new financing tool called the ‘Food Shock Window’ to address balance of payments needs linked to the global food crisis. Malawi, where hunger among the poor is common, is the first low-income country to open that window.
Under the “staff-level agreement”, in IMF-speak, Malawi will receive up to $88.3-million in emergency financing. Hunger periodically stalks the warm heart of Africa, especially at the start of the grain-planting season when most of the previous season’s crop has been consumed.
African Civil Society And Faith Leaders Say Rebranding The Green Revolution Is No Solution
Farmers, civil society and faith leaders of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa recognise the double rebranding of the Green Revolution as an admission of failure, a cynical distraction, and reject the new strategy offered by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
What Africa's irrigation renaissance means for food security
As Africa faces the threat of climate change, and as population growth increases demand for food, smallholder farmers, who form the bulk of the continent's food producers, are turning to innovative irrigation systems to secure year-round food production.
