Food Security Archives

How a retired banker harnessed the power of cassava to improve livelihoods in her village

May 9, 2022

Angelita Mbatia is a former Director of Financial Markets from the Central Bank of Tanzania. In 2004, she moved from Dar es Salaam to Bwama village, Kisarawe district. Her motivation to move there was clear: she was inspired by Julius Nyerere’s (Tanzania’s first president) philosophy of self-reliance and wanted to apply this philosophy to helping support the Bwama village community.

How Onion Sauce added extra spice to my life

April 21, 2022

10 years ago after completing my master’s in business administration degree, I was thinking, ‘from where should I start my career journey?’

MEDA staff contribute to latest Agricultural Science Book

April 19, 2022

MEDA’s Senior Director, Global Program Operations, David Eagle, and MEDA’s Tanzania Country Project Manager, Stephen Magige have contributed to a chapter in the Agricultural Science book, “Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations – Value Creation for Inclusive Outcomes.” Together with other industry experts and partners, they co-wrote Chapter 15, “Commercially Sustainable Cassava Seed Systems in Africa” which outlined how building strong Cassava seed systems creates value for Cassava seed entrepreneurs and their value chains.

MEDA concludes a successful International Development Week

February 11, 2022

Waterloo, ON– From February 6th to February 12th, MEDA participated in International Development Week by highlighting the pressing issues that impact global poverty alleviation and

How Ukrainian farmers are adapting to climate change

February 11, 2022

Climate change is having a severe impact on agricultural producers in Ukraine. The changing climate has resulted in extreme weather events, like droughts, floods, dry spells, and hailstones, that have become all too common.

Calling on Elon Musk to help end world hunger with his power to disrupt

February 9, 2022

Both men are wrong! Hunger isn’t a “spend money and it’s fixed” problem, just like building electric cars or reusable rockets. Hunger is a complex problem of food politics. It requires the right food at the right place at the right time.

Economic resilience: more than the economy?

February 9, 2022

Two years ago, countries around the world began implementing lockdowns and other restrictions to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These lockdowns resulted in an unprecedented disruption in global markets, a rise in food systems vulnerabilities, and a socio-economic crisis few of us have witnessed in our lifetime.