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World Food Day highlights the challenge of feeding a growing world amidst the reality of climate change.

There is no shortage of ideas on how Africa can improve its food systems.

When Maria talks about poultry farming, she doesn't start with the chickens. She starts with the soil.

Young people in rural Kenya are enjoying higher incomes and secure work through agriculture, according to a new mid-term review of a Practical Action programme designed to support 100,000 entrepreneurs.

Practical Action is proud to announce a fantastic response to an appeal broadcast on BBC Radio 4 by journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy.

New policies and a financial package which could save the Amazon have been proposed by a group of indigenous women from Peru and Ecuador.   

In the rural Nepal, 38-year-old Bin Maya has transformed her family’s future through vegetable farming. She lives with her husband, two sons and a daughter. For years they relied on small plots of maize, wheat and barley that barely fed the family.

In Kassala and Gedarif states in Sudan—where families walked miles for stagnant canal water and children regularly fell ill — clean water is available once more.

In Sudan’s Southern Sawagi area, Imtithal balances caring for her five children with leading change in her community as a member of the Al-Haram Agricultural Association.