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http://www.atdforum.org/spip.php?article440
One Acre Fund
In just four years, One Acre Fund has gone from helping 40 families in Kenya to working with close to 30’000 in Kenya and Rwanda, doubling and tripling harvests on almost every field. The organisation plans to roughly double the number of farmers it assists every year, aiming to work with one million within a decade.
One Acre Fund complements official actions of government even when there are no ties between the two. In Rwanda, for instance, its work coincides with the government’s efforts to end hunger through agricultural development. Thanks to the government’s Crop Intensification Program for example, corn production has quadrupled in the last five years. Such national programs are likely to get addition support from the ’Feed the Future’ initiative by the US government and the ’Global Agriculture and Food Security Program’ (GAFSP) by the G-20.
Source: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/roger-thurow
NOV/DEC 2010
The Fertile Continent
Roger Thurow
With one billion people already going hungry and the world’s population rising, global food production must urgently be increased. The countries that managed such surges in the past — Brazil, China, India, the United States — cannot do so again. But Africa can — if it finally uses the seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation methods common everywhere else.
