Despite Drought, Hope Remains for the Gold Finger Women
By E. Vancil Recently, three of us from Monsanto’s St. Louis offices had the opportunity to visit a group of women in a Kenyan village. The village is approximately three miles off the equator, and we came there to learn more about the challenges the women, and many more like them throughout Africa, face each [...]
Horn of Africa: Geldof, Bono and Seale
By Jeffrey Seale In the fall of 1984, while I was in college, BBC correspondent Michael Buerk did a television news report about the Ethiopian famine. A young Irish musician named Bob Geldof saw the report and decided to do something. He assembled popular British rock stars, under the name Band Aid, to record “Do [...]
Horn of Africa: I Know the Challenges
By Zellipah Githui I cannot remember exactly when I started farming. But I know that by first or second grade I knew how to plant corn and potatoes and milk cows. I was also taking care of my brother—who is three years younger than me—and working with my mother on our farm in Central Kenya, 141 [...]
Helping in the Horn of Africa
We’ve been reading reports about how the drought and famine situation is the Horn of Africa has been easing, but the short- and long-term needs for between 12 and 14 million people are still serious. We caught up with Kinyua M’Bijjewe, Monsanto Corporate Affairs in Africa, and asked him for an update. For more information, [...]
Drought and The Horn of Africa: The Need is Great
Nobel Peace Prize and father of the Green Revolution Norman Borlaug often talked about what he called the “traveling geography of hunger.” Fueled by a drought called the worst in 60 years, hunger has moved to the geographies in the Horn of Africa. Drought and famine in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have left more [...]
We’re all in this together…
I’m the youngest of seven children. Before I was born in Ireland, my parents and six older siblings lived in Zambia for a number of years and three of them were even born there. They often talk about their time spent in Africa and my brother Ronan’s adamant claims of “Afro-Irishness” still amuse me to this day. This is perhaps one of the main reasons why I have always been intrigued by the African continent and its peoples – my family loved their time in Zambia and their stories and tales about the friends they met and the things they experienced do well to paint a pleasant picture of life there.
Solving Our Water Woes
Monsanto Intern, Whittney, dicusses the dilemmas facing agriculture today when it comes to water usage and conservation.
