Burkina Faso’s Ministers of Environment and Agriculture, Water and Water Resources are “absolutely clear about the critical role tree foods play in preventing famine,” reports TREE AID’s Chief Executive, Dr. Philip Goodwin, following a meeting with ministers in [...]
Human Rights Watch says people in the remote western Gambella region of Ethiopia are being forcibly moved to inadequate villages to free up land for commercial agriculture. A report released by the New York-based group [...]
A second food crisis is unfolding in Africa, in the Sahel, that should start hitting the headlines in spring next year. Why spring 2012? The answer lies in the remarkably predictable onset of food crisis, starting [...]
A: When no-one knows. Spot the difference between the two pictures. One is teeming with life, full of wild grasses, flowers, insects and birds. The other is quiet, not much lives there, and no-one can [...]
The Ghanaian government has announced a minimum price of GHC 32 for an 80kg bag of shea nuts. The price is the first of its kind for shea nuts, and is great news for the [...]
The fruit of the iconic African baobab has been used in food and medicine by generations of Africans, and is finally being appreciated around the world. Known as the ‘nurse’ for its many medicinal qualities, [...]
Land-grabbing has been grabbing the headlines recently, but the interest from foreign investors continues With large swathes of East Africa facing food shortages due to droughts and failing harvests, the international community has responded with [...]
Native African wild fruit trees previously overlooked When you think of Africa, some of the most common fruits you think of are mangos and citrus; fruits that have actually been imported from other countries. Now [...]
Malians plant trees to fight effects of climate change Central Mali is a fertile area where wetlands and forests,crucial habitats for the wildlife on which the local people depend, are sustained by the Niger River. [...]
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Sylvestre Ouedraogo, TREE AID’s Head of Programme Development in Burkina Faso, met with colleagues from the Forest Dialogue at Yale University while on a trip to the USA. Sylvestre was able to update them on [...]
TREE AID’s Programme Director, Tony Hill, travelled to Belfast to meet with corporate supporter, RPS river management experts, who, in addition to their financial support for the River Trees project in Northern Ghana, will help [...]
TREE AID’s Enterprise Support Manager, Elvis Tangem, travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2011 to share the successful Market Information System, which uses mobile phone and radio technology to connect buyers and sellers of tree [...]
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