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The rate of unemployment among youths in Nigeria is growing at an alarming rate. Most youths prefer to settle for white collar jobs rather than work in agriculture. Agriculture is usually seen as something that poor and rural people do. There is an urgent need for reorientation and building Nigerian youths’ capacity towards the agriculture […]

Artisanal mining causes serious environmental damage through water contamination with heavy metals like mercury and cyanide, deforestation, soil erosion and siltation. Because of this, artisanal mining has been criminalized in Zimbabwe. However, the criminalization of artisanal mining has failed to stop the activity of an estimated 500,000 artisanal miners extracting gold, diamonds, tantalite and chrome […]

Worldwide, an estimated 34 million hectares of irrigated farmland are affected by high salinity, representing 11 percent of the total irrigated land, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. If these lands were rehabilitated, they could effectively produce 20 percent of the global wheat production, which could generate an additional $42 billion of revenue […]

Soils are the forgotten ecosystem service, says Maurizio Guadagni, rural development specialist at the World Bank.  But he is out to change that.  For him they are the key to food security, to biodiversity protection and especially to mitigating and adapting to climate change. Guadagni is connected to the new Bridging Agriculture and Conservation Initiative, launched […]

“Slow Food Youth Germany” is a group of young activists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds that are actively involved in their communities to create a better food system. One of the focuses of our work is putting on fun and interactive events to make consumers more aware of the issues affecting our food system and […]

While more and more Nigerian youth are encouraged today with hopes of a profitable career in agriculture, there is little discussion about the challenges awaiting them if they do decide to hop in. From the very beginning, they face huge financial hurdles – the nation’s banks and financial houses are not likely to fund agri-projects […]