by Mahesh Patel | Aug 4, 2022 | Agriculture, Economy, Policy
International Youth Day – Bringing the youth back into our conversations THIS PHOTO IS THE PROPERTY OF EFF “An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own.” – Terri Guillemets As...
by Mahesh Patel | Jun 5, 2022 | Economy, Environment, Policy, Technology
World Environment Day – Revisiting “Only One Earth” PHOTO: COURTESY – NASA / VOYAGER 1 “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from...
by Mahesh Patel | Apr 25, 2022 | Agriculture, Governance, News, Policy
Earth Day – Rising to the challenge of saving ourselves “I want to leave the land in better condition than when I found it. I want to create more using less, with less impact on the environment” – Jay Schultz As I was about to deliver my speech at the Private...
by Mahesh Patel | Feb 25, 2022 | Agriculture, Economy, News, Policy
Cashew in Zambia: Synergistic Interventions Paving the Path to Success “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis After a long time, I was recently able to travel to Zambia, a country I am...
by Mahesh Patel | Jan 25, 2022 | Agriculture, News, Policy
Success: Reviving 50,000 cashew trees in Kilifi, Kenya “Investments in agriculture are the best weapons against hunger and poverty, and they have made life better for billions of people” – Bill Gates The idea that agriculture is indeed the future of developing...
by Mahesh Patel | Aug 16, 2021 | Agriculture, Business, Economy, Governance, Policy
Breathing new life into Kenyan cashew Since the turn of the millennium, world trade in raw cashew nuts has more than doubled, amounting to 3.6 billion kilograms of nuts produced around the world. According to the UNCTAD, African producers have accounted for...
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