food security

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.…

ADF STAFF A huge net swings across an industrial fishing trawler in Ghana. It opens, and the deck fills with a pile of glistening, silver-scaled fish. The ship’s double-net system, which helps catch larger amounts of smaller fish,…

ADF STAFF A pilot project by Chad’s Armed Forces aims to create a self-sustaining food supply for the military by developing farms on military outposts. Graduates of the Chadian Army Farm School started the first on-base farm at the…