Restoring Food Security: The Efforts of APROSSA in Burkina Faso Editor’s note: Save the Children International warns that 1.4 million children in Burkina Faso will face critical levels of hunger this summer, a crisis forged from years of armed conflict and...
By Ariel Miller, ESRAG Newsletter Editor Combating Malnutrition and Poverty with Semilla Nueva’s Biofortified Seeds Trekking through the Guatemala highlands in his early twenties, meeting and listening to indigenous farmers, Curt Bowen was appalled to witness...
by Grace Gillman, Canmore Rotary Club Local Food Systems for Sustainable Growth How we feed ourselves is one of the most complex challenges facing humanity and our planet. Agriculture and food systems account for 24% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions...
by Dimitri Oubda, ESRAG West Africa Correspondent Ummy Farms was founded in 2020 by Rotaractor Abdul Rashid Wumpini in the northern region of Ghana. “Ummy Farms Empowerment Initiative is a transformative project dedicated to uplifting local women farmers through...
By Dawn A. Byford and Kris Cameron, Co-Chairs of the ESRAG Plant-rich Diet Taskforce “Biological diversity — or biodiversity — is the variety of life on Earth in all its forms, from genes and bacteria to entire ecosystems such as forests or coral reefs. The...
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