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Tag: food waste

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

Farmers are going hungry because they lack ways of keeping food from rotting or being destroyed by pests after harvest.  […]

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Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change

April 21, 2015
IN THE MEDIA, MONGABAY.ORG, RACHEL CERNANSKY, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS, SRI REPORTING

Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to […]

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Empowering women in order to save the harvest

April 16, 2015
IN THE MEDIA, MONGABAY.ORG, NEWS PROGRAMS, RACHEL CERNANSKY, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS, SRI REPORTING

On a hot weekend in February, Shamim Daudi sits down with farmer after farmer near Babati, Tanzania, to talk with […]

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The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa

April 14, 2015
IN THE MEDIA, MONGABAY.ORG, NEWS PROGRAMS, RACHEL CERNANSKY, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS, SRI REPORTING

In the late 1980s, Bertha Mjawa remembers seeing endless quantities of fruits and vegetables getting thrown out across Tanzania because […]

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Unique center trains Tanzanian farmers to preserve their fruits and veggies

April 14, 2015
IN THE MEDIA, MONGABAY.ORG, NEWS PROGRAMS, RACHEL CERNANSKY, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS

Outside Halima Sama’s house, children run around the dirt compound, kicking up the dust that blankets the region during the […]

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New solutions aim to deliver more grain from farm to table in sub-Saharan Africa

April 13, 2015
IN THE MEDIA, MONGABAY.ORG, NEWS PROGRAMS, RACHEL CERNANSKY, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS, SRI REPORTING

Corn is an integral part of many meals in Tanzania and its neighboring East African countries. Ground, it makes a […]

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Combating food waste in sub-Saharan Africa

April 9, 2015
IN THE MEDIA, MONGABAY.ORG, NEWS PROGRAMS, RACHEL CERNANSKY, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS, SRI REPORTING

At the bustling Kilombero wholesale produce market in the town of Arusha, Tanzania, traders sort hundreds of pounds of mangos […]

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2 new SRIs launched, 2 winners announced

August 1, 2014
MONGABAY.ORG, SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES, SRI FELLOWS, SRI OPPORTUNITIES, SRI REPORTING, Uncategorized

Mongabay.org’s Special Reporting Initiative (SRI) program has recently awarded two different reporting prizes to journalists to tackle these vital and […]

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