Focus On: Building Infrastructure in Africa 22 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm

With thanks to input from Calestous Juma, Professor or Practice of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School and author of New Harvest: Agricultural innovation in Africa Poor ...

@FarmingFirst Twitter Reaches 20,000 Followers! To Celebrate We Ask – Can Social Media Change the World? 20 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm

Farming First has for a long time been at the forefront of social media trends, growing to be one of the most influential operators within the agricultural, development and food security space, contin...

Engaging Youth in Agriculture – The Key to a Food Secure Future? 1 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm

(Image from Farm Africa) Engaging youth in agriculture has been a prominent topic recently and has risen up the development agenda, as there is growing concern worldwide that young people have become...

Tristram Stuart – The Global Food Waste Scandal 1 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm

IPNI – Contributions of Best Management Practices Towards Sustainable Oil Palm Production Through Intensification 29 Jul 2013 | 06:41 pm

The world’s population is expected to increase to more than 9 billion people in 2050, with more than half living in urban areas. The demand for vegetable oil by this “urbanizing” population is expecte...

Action to achieve Africa feeding Africa 22 Jul 2013 | 03:44 pm

Last week, Farming First was on the ground at the sixth Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW) taking place in Ghana between 15 and 20 July. Organised by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa ...

Video: The Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda 12 Jul 2013 | 01:57 pm

Market-Based Solutions Increase Smallholder Farmers’ Yields 5 Jul 2013 | 06:43 pm

More than 75 percent of the world’s poor are farmers. Their profession is to grow food, yet many employ outdated agricultural tools and techniques. Despite their hard work, millions of farmers barely ...

IFA Vice-President Mr. Abdulrahman Jawahery on the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals 5 Jul 2013 | 03:52 pm

This blog post was written by Mr. Abdulrahman A. Hussain Jawahery President of the Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co (GPIC) and Vice-President for Sustainable Development for the International Fertiliz...

World Water Week 5 Jul 2013 | 03:13 pm

2013 has by the UN General Assembly been declared the “International Year of Water Cooperation“. The questions to be addressed in 2013 include: why do we need to cooperate, on what, for what aim, at w...