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What if some of Africa's biggest challenges in food security, agriculture, health and livestock production could be addressed by innovations already taking shape across the continent? From crops that can regrow after harvest to safer water for urban agriculture, African Researchers and innovators are creating solutions that could change the way communities grow food, ensure safe water for urban agriculture and build resilient livelihoods. But turning these innovations into impact requires more than science alone, it also calls for the right policies, systems and regulatory environment.
The Story of the Month explores Ethiopia's promising journey with perennial rice, a technology that could help farmers reduce the cost and labour associated with repeated planting while improving productivity and soil health. But might a crop that can regrow multiple times be a new route to food security and reduced production costs?
In our Newsroom, we discuss the implications of the quality of water flowing through cities into farms, not only for agricultural production, but also for food safety and human health.
Our Video of the Month focuses on how African animal feed manufacturers are advocating for more availability of biotechnology derived feed inputs, which they say will be useful in bringing down the cost of animal feed and making livestock production more affordable and competitive.
The one thing that stands out from this issue is that Africa does not lack innovative ideas. The challenge is to create the conditions that enable translation of these ideas from research and promising trials into farms, policies and, finally, the hands of those who need them.
Read, watch and discover how African science and innovation are helping shape solutions for a more food-secure, healthy and resilient continent.
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