Thomson Reuters Foundation – Improved storage techniques have shown they can cut the loss of harvested corn by 10 per cent in Tanzania, and that could mean that one-third fewer households will go hungry in the lean season, Swiss researchers said. Why it matters: Efforts to protect harvested grain could play a key role in […] Read more
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Pest-proof bags and bins slim Tanzania’s ‘lean season’
Cheap solutions to food losses are having a big impact on hunger, researchers say
Finding agriculture innovation triggers for Africa
The continent doesn’t have access to many of the inputs of developed countries, but that is changing
On much of the African continent, 15 years ago there was an almost total absence of landline telephone technology. Now, with smallholder farmers as much at the forefront as any of their urban small business counterparts, the landline situation remains the same, but the bandwidth of Africa is abuzz with smartphone communications that have transformed […] Read more
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