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    Africa Produces Enough Food. So Why Do Millions Still Starve?

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Hunger Drives Uganda’s Mothers to Desperate Choices. And It’s Not Just Uganda.

3 months ago3 months ago13 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

Photographs are taken on the ground in Uganda by Food for Africa News contributors, documenting the true conditions of the…

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The Cost of “Free” Education in Uganda

5 months ago4 months ago9 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

When Ghana announced the abolition of school fees for primary education under its Universal Primary Education (UPE) program in 1997,…

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Dependency without design

7 months ago7 months ago13 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

How aid cuts exposed the economic foundations Africa never fully built, and what must rise in their place now. We…

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Ending hunger is not just about food

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Broken credit systems, poor storage, and climate shocks show why Africa’s farming struggle is more about systems than scarcity. Yet…

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In Africa, will AI take jobs or help keep food on the table?

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How AI is helping and hurting, and how you can get ahead. A three part series on FFA News Across…

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How Lucky Are You?

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Editorial When I was a little girl, I often heard the line: “Think of the starving kids in Africa.” It came when…

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Pope Leo XIV Calls for Compassionate Healthcare for Those who Suffer

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  • Agriculture
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Africa’s Greatest Challenge May Become Africa’s Greatest Opportunity

2 days ago6 hours ago
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Africa Produces Enough Food. So Why Do Millions Still Starve?

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The Not-So-Sweet Crisis Facing West Africa

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The Ebola Story Nobody Is Talking About

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The Resource Curse: When Rich Countries Stay Poor

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Ebola Is Spreading Again in Africa. Now Officials Fear a Second Crisis: Hunger

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She Went Hungry Every Morning. Now One Change Is Changing Ghana.

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What’s happening in Ghana may surprise you

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Household Hunger Linked to Higher Depression Risk Among Adolescent Girls

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Africa Now Carries the World’s Fastest-Growing Hunger Crisis

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Dr. Abdul Karim Williams: How Untreated Joint Disease Is Driving Hunger in Africa

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January in West Africa

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The road in 2025 was difficult. But Africa is not standing still.

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When Life Gets Heavy, Dance.

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When There Is No Food: What the Body Can and Cannot Survive On

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Sanctions are written for governments but paid for by civilians

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When the Walk for Water Replaces the Walk for Class

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3 Million People Just Rewrote the Narrative on Food and Power in Africa.

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Agenda 2063. Vision, Power, and the Fight Over Africa’s Future

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The Tree That Survived the Dinosaurs Could Not Survive Humans

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Africa’s New Agriculture Vision 2026–2035

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The Art of Not Breaking 

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The price of survival: how relief efforts are taxed in South Sudan

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Nastasja Nedimović: How a mother lived through bone marrow cancer with food, gratitude and the gift of blood

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Before the world calls it famine

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Africa’s Hunger Signal: What Happens When the Internet Stops

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Women and girls under siege in Sudan

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Why feeding people is national security

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Africa’s Locust Shield May Already Be Growing in Its Fields

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Fifty Billion for Climate: Will Food Be at the Table?

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When the Nearest Market Is Half a Day Away, What Does ‘Access to Food’ Even Mean?

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Africa at the Crossroads: Hunger, Health, Money, and the True Price of Progress

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Food for Africa News Reaches 1.5 Million Views

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If Hunger Killed as Fast as Bombs, Would the World Care More?

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Who loses more when AGOA ends: Africa or the U.S.?

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What if Deserts Could Grow Food?

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Reflections

Agriculture
Highlights
Africa’s Greatest Challenge May Become Africa’s Greatest Opportunity
According to the FAO, Africa has approximately 2.6 billion hectares…
Agriculture
Featured
The African cat that guards the rice
How a working cat can save a season of food…
Reflections
Africa feeds the world. But who feeds Africa?
It is a question that cannot be answered by numbers…

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