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TAKE PART: Africa’s Silent Scourge Is Wiping Out Crops
Farmers are going hungry because they lack ways of keeping food from rotting or being destroyed by pests after harvest. […]
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Environmental Journalism and Education
Category: RACHEL CERNANSKY
Cutting food waste in Africa would drive greater prosperity
In a piece for The New York Times, Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky explores how food waste undermines African […]
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Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change
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
On a hot weekend in February, Shamim Daudi sits down with farmer after farmer near Babati, Tanzania, to talk with […]
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ENSIA – Researchers build on age-old practices to reduce food loss in Africa
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky has published her article: Could traditional plants hold the secret to saving crops […]
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The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa
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
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
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
At the bustling Kilombero wholesale produce market in the town of Arusha, Tanzania, traders sort hundreds of pounds of mangos […]
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