Two hundred and twenty-seven million of the world's chronically hungry live in Africa. This translates to about 30% of this group.

Europe’s maize millers are at the center of an increasingly integrated supply chain, producing high-quality products for a food market that demands ever higher standards in terms of safety, sustainability and traceability.

Just as the Cadbury brothers did more than 100 years ago, the programme works on the ground, hand-in-hand with the men and women who grow the essential ingredients used to make Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolates.

Late last year, Eric O’Keefe was researching a mysterious recent purchase of 14,500 acres of prime Washington state farmland. His magazine, The Land Report, tracks major land transactions and produces an annual list of the 100 biggest US landowners.

The 20th century saw numerous large dams built around the world as demand for cheap electricity grew. Yet many of these ageing dams are in such poor state that they are increasingly posing threats to people living downstream from them, says the United Nations.

We have a new open access paper out in the Journal of Modern African Studies – “Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: