Food Security: Passion alone is not enough, add Knowledge to it
Farming is a noble profession that requires a level of competency to be successful. As late Dr. IK would say, it requires 90% science and 10% art.
According to FAO, food fraud occurs when a food supplier or producer intentionally deceives its customer about the quality, quantity or contents of the foods they are purchasing in order to make more profit. While food fraud is often motivated by...
A typical agrarian community is a rural area where people of similar cultural values live together; sharing ideas and information, producing similar crops and possibly carrying out similar agricultural practices. Dissemination of this information...
For every food sovereign nation, the market is a powerhouse that helps improve the food chains and its system, with a strong market structure that supports it and the market forces (the forces of demand and supply) that are self regulatory. Not...
In today's world, food production is no longer a hobby for the farmers but a business of wellness and satisfaction - where consumers have a preference for food that satisfies their needs (health, social and environmental needs). Thus, how food is...
Over the last 15 years working with smallholder farmers, I have come to terms with the increasing importance of private agricultural extension services after the demise of public agricultural extension services. This is necessary as farmers need...
Everyday, more people are being born to our world, and more food is required to sustain them - There are many mouths to eat, many stomachs to be filled with nutritious food - but only few farmers produce food. More sadly, the majority of these...
The reality of today is that the agricultural sector is plagued with several challenges in different countries. Farmers are protecting, farmers bitterly complaining and farmers diverting in order to make ends meet.
Food security is a journey that no nation achieves overnight. This is because it requires consented efforts of many independent but key stakeholders coming together to have a common goal and to become dependent on one another.
This morning, I sat down to reflect on the work I have done in the last 14 years working with farmers. One key component stood out - Food Safety (I want to be remembered as a strong advocate and supporter for food safety at the farm level).