The Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO, is calling for the transformation of Africa’s agri-food system to make healthy diets more affordable. A new report shows Africans are missing out on the nutritiuos foods such as fruits, vegetables and animal proteins due to high costs. The report also shows the number of undernourished in the continent has risen to over two hundred and fifty million people.

Conservation agriculture; a farming technique, that's not only raising harvest-yeilds, but is also raising the quality of life, for the small-scale farmers, who use it. Jiitu Abraham was recently in Zambia and got the chance, to speak, with one farmer... who was able to change her own life and the lives of her children, by switching her farming-practice.

In this guest lecture, Paul Blackmore, director of the Fuqua Conservatory at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens presents his fascinating work on edible and medicinal plants of Cameroon. Mr. Blackmore speaks about his fascinating experiences during field research and conservation efforts over 6 years that he spent working in the area of Mount Cameroon. This lecture was given in April 2012 in Dr. Cassandra Quave's class "Botanical Medicine and Health" at Emory University.

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AFSA Coordinator Dr Million Belay explains the narrative underlying the industrial food system.

Victor Yeimo of Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB) shares the situation, challenges and demands of the West Papuan people to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food