Digitisation helps consumers, retailers, and food processors to promote and make more informed choices. A whole new storytelling service confirming products' quality is rapidly turning into a...
It is important to note that major sectors comprise of agribusiness inputs, agribusiness outputs, and agricultural services. The agribusiness input sector essentially includes all resources involved...
In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde goes over the merits and downfalls of cold chain in farming techniques. He contemplates how to overcome obstacles cold chain may present to make it a...
Join us for the third Global Agricultural Politics and Policy from an African Perspective (G.A.P.P.A.P.) Webinar on Thursday 30 September, 4-5PM WAT / 5-6PM CEST via Zoom. During this webinar Dick...
Join us on Tuesday, September 28, from 1:30 PM till 2:15 PM (CET) + 45 more minutes of informality (if you care to stay on) for the first chat this fall in the Digital Food series. REGISTER HERE Upon...
In this weeks Letter to my Farmers, Babatunde discusses the necessity of education about food production for understanding to be cultivated. Knowledge is an asset, and in order to appreciate food production and expand farmer's knowledge of food...
On Tuesday, April 13, the seventh chat in the Digital Food series took place. Cargill's Anke Hamminga explains how her company has developed its own metrics to achieve its goal: nourishing the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.
In his letter to his farmers this week, Babatunde discusses the importance of implementing measures to combat climate change, and the need for policy makers to step up in providing resources to farmers, especially in a rapidly changing world with the...
"Putting the cart before the horse,” is how Paul Jeangille describes the introduction of technology into the agricultural sector in Africa. In this op-ed, Jeangille, an Agribusiness manager, focusing on plantations, transformation, agro-industries,...
Join us every last Tuesday of the month for our chats in the Digital Food series. Moderator Tiffany Tsui continues to talk with her guests and the audience about the challenges and opportunities the brave new food world digitization makes us enter....
Developing efficient extension service delivery is vital in ensuring that African farmers are connected to the world. Access to adequate information improves their productivity substantially. So says agricultural expert Babatunde Olarewaju. In this...
It is important that smallholder farmers are aware and knowledgeable on the impact of the short and long term activities on the resources of the environment and are able to develop sustainable plans to ensure that the ecosystem is maintained. So says...
“While many in the global north are excited by this idea of being electronically empowered to fight global warming, starting with electric cars for transportation, those in the global south are suffering from the negative effects of living and...
“It is important we devise a better strategy to identify the needs of the smallholder farmers and respect their choices, rather than our own perceived reality about them”, says Nigerian food expert and agronomist Babatunde Olarewaju. In this...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had, and still has, a huge impact on Sub-Saharan Africa and its development. The response to it is at a critical juncture and points to an eminent need to consider improvements in health care provision, education, food...
