food security

ADF STAFF Under overcast skies, Ghanaian fishermen in a wooden canoe strained to haul in their fishing nets through choppy waters 17 kilometers off the coast. Despite hours of struggle, their nets were mostly empty. “I am not…

ADF STAFF Illegal fishing by large industrial trawlers in Ghana has decimated fish stocks to the brink of collapse and left small-scale fishermen with empty nets. In Elmina, a coastal fishing town about 155 kilometers southwest of…

ADF STAFF A three-month investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has found that 90% of fishing vessels operating in Ghana are owned by Chinese companies. The EJF, a nongovernmental organization that tracks…

ADF STAFF To prevent further decline of fish stocks in the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana recently urged neighboring countries to implement coordinated closed fishing seasons. Paul Odartei Bannerman, deputy executive director of Ghana’s…

ADF STAFF Roughly 12.3 million people work in Africa’s fisheries and aquaculture sector, but their livelihoods are compromised by rules that favor large foreign fleets. According to an analysis published by The Conversation Africa,…

ADF STAFF A pioneering oceanographer called on world leaders to ban industrial fishing in international waters to preserve fish populations and sustain the livelihoods of small fishing communities. Sylvia Earle, 86, made the…

ADF STAFF Rising prices, slow supply chains and mounting debt. All these things have harmed economies around the world, but Africa has been hit the hardest. A new report by the International Monetary Fund found that Sub-Saharan…

ADF STAFF Musa Sila, 57, has worked at sea for nearly four decades, but never in his career was he treated as poorly as when spent several months on a Chinese vessel in the Indian Ocean. During a meeting with Kenyan maritime…

ADF STAFF An influx of foreign industrial trawlers in Cameroonian waters has led to an increase in illegal fishing and highlighted the nation’s maritime and national security issues, according to a new study. An estimated 70…

ADF STAFF Wilson Lang’at owns a 2.5-hectare farm in the village of Koiyet, which lies in Kenya’s verdant southern Rift Valley. For years, his primary source of income was trading cows while he grew maize as a smaller side business.…