“Don’t Forget about Africa”

AFRICA

Collaboration to Advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger     Last week The Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M announced a new collaboration based in South Africa at the Ukulima Farm Research Center to advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger. “It is my hope this collaboration will improve agricultural [...] Read more »

Carting water, by Kyle Wohling

Diligent Water Circulations No matter how large or small, every farmer thinks about how to manage agricultural water. They think about how they’ll get it, how they’ll conserve it, and how they’ll be able to produce more crops with less water. In this video by ABC Open, we see how one farmer struggles with water [...] Read more »

From the Country to the South Bronx: A Small Farmer’s Weekly Odyssey

Video by: CUNY J-School Video Storytelling From the filmmakers: Ben Schwartz, 32, always loved to farm from an early age. He spent his childhood in Nyack, New York, but his grandparents actually hail from the South Bronx. They left in the ‘60s, during a period of white flight, and Ben always wanted to go back [...] Read more »

ANDE – Foodtents excerpt

Video by: Darby Films From the filmmakers: An excerpt from the ANDE Global Video that we entered in a Social Innovation contest at mckinseyonsociety.com. Read more »

Agriculture Innovation – Mark Gustafson

Video by: Nebraska Entrepreneur Read more »

W4RA – Web Alliance for Regreening in Africa

Video by: Anna Bon From the filmmaker: The Web Alliance for Regreening in Africa is a team set up by the VU University Amsterdam, the World Wide Web Foundation and Sahel Eco, Mali. W4RA aims to expand the World Wide Web by creating a communication platform where people can create, access and share their knowledge, [...] Read more »

Training Widowed Grandmothers with Simple Agriculture

Videos shared with local media with goal to inspire people who live in extreme poverty to solve their own poverty issues Read more »

The Gleaners

Gleaning, whereby local community organizations rescue crops that would otherwise be buried under the plow blade. Read more »

Farm Rescue

nonprofit organization that plants and harvests crops free of charge for family farmers who have suffered a major illness, injury or natural disaster. Read more »

1500 stores to open in food deserts nationwide

1500 stores to open in food deserts nationwide Read more »

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