Let’s make this the last famine
While you don’t hear or see it in the news anymore, people are still dying in the Horn of Africa from a catastrophic famine. It’s a moral imperative to save these lives and encourage governments and...
View ArticleHungry No More in Africa
Beyond being a season for being merry, this is also traditionally a season for giving. As we wind down the year, we at ONE in Africa are asking you to give a thought to the 13.3 million people in the...
View ArticleThe Last Famine
As we launch our Hungry No More campaign we are privileged to publish the following guest post from Festus Gontebanye Mogae, the former President of Botswana and Ibrahim Prize Laureate. When I served...
View ArticleHugh Masekela joins our Hungry No More campaign
As our Hungry No More campaign continues, famed musician and trumpeter Hugh Masekela joins us in calling on African leaders to focus investments in their agricultural sectors, which will contribute to...
View ArticleONE’s first petition in Africa delivered to President Kikwete in Tanzania
“Farming is the future. Famines should be consigned to history.” A group of smallholder farmers and ordinary African citizens marched to the State House in Tanzania today, to deliver a petition signed...
View ArticleCelebrating 50 years of African unity
ONE Africa Team members Nealon, Sipho and Nachilala at the African Union 50th Anniversary Conference in Addis Ababa. Photo: ONE As many of you will know, May 25 marked the 50th anniversary of the...
View ArticleThe future of agriculture in Africa: ONE’s new report reveals a continent...
Today we publish a new report, Ripe for Change: The Promise of Africa’s Agricultural Transformation. It’s a vision of what a continent-wide agricultural transformation would look like for millions of...
View ArticleCAADP works! Rwanda lifts over 1 million people out of poverty
Nachilala Nkombo writes about lessons from the success of Rwanda shared during a caucus for Ministers of Agriculture leading agricultural reforms in their countries. On May day, on the margins of the...
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