TAKE PART: Africa’s Silent Scourge Is Wiping Out Crops October 7, 2015 IN THE MEDIA, MONGABAY.ORG, RACHEL CERNANSKY, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS, SRI REPORTING (Photo: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters) Farmers are going hungry because they lack ways of keeping food from rotting or being destroyed by pests after harvest. Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky reports for TakePart. Tags: africa, food, food waste