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How African governments can improve land rights
Last month, the advocacy group Global Witness uncovered an alarming story of ordinary citizens who were allegedly assaulted and arrested in Liberia by police, during a protest of land expansion by a...
View ArticleONE leaps into the AU Year of Agriculture, starting in Benin.
Last week, ONE jointly organised a two-day multilateral forum on agricultural policy with the Beninese platform of civil society (PASCiB) in Cotonou. It is not the first time that ONE and Benin have...
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Comic strips that bust poverty myths
As Bill and Melinda Gates said in their 2014 Annual Letter earlier this month “By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations...
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Farming in Africa: time to debunk some myths
Our guest blogger today is Mercy Karanja, Senior Program Officer and Senior Regional Advisor to East Africa for Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She grew up on a...
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The future of agriculture in Africa: ONE’s new report reveals a continent...
Today we publish a new report, Ripe for Change: The Promise of Africa’s Agricultural Transformation. It’s a vision of what a continent-wide agricultural transformation would look like for millions of...
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D’banj: “Today the Koko Master has become the Koko Farmer”
D’banj meets cocoa farmer Adam in Ghana. Photo: ONE Today the Koko Master has become the Koko Farmer. I’ve just returned from Ghana where I was lucky to meet an amazing cocoa farmer called Adam Yakubu....
View ArticleAfrican leaders must wake up and DO AGRIC
Today we’re in Addis Ababa for the launch of ONE’s exciting and ambitious pan-African campaign: DO AGRIC. This is the issue of our time. 2014 has been declared the ‘Year of Agriculture & Food...
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DO AGRIC campaign launches at the AU Summit with D’banj, Yaya Toure and Juliani
Last week, we launched our pan-African campaign DO AGRIC at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa. We were joined by D’banj, the African Union Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Economy H.E Rhoda...
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New report: Levelling the Field for Women Farmers in Africa
Anne Wafula is a farmer in Kenya, and is part of the One Acre Fund network. Photo: Hailey Tucker With the African Union Year of Agriculture and Food Security in full swing, ONE today is releasing a...
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ONE calls on Tanzanians to “talk, speak, sing and walk the agriculture way”
Farm visit before the forum. Nestled among the hills in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands, Iringa is the quiet, yet bustling city where ONE and Agricultural Non State Actors Forum (ANSAF) chose to launch...
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