“Even after we learn how to live with COVID-19, our households will need food, farmers will need the knowledge that we are learning from ongoing farmer field school studies. We are just happy to be able to continue with FFS...
15 April 2020
For Lilian Dama Kadenge, farming was the last possible option. She once declared that she would rather take up menial jobs than turn to farming. However, when a local university professor came to teach about good agricultural practices, curiosity got...
06 April 2020
Malawi’s ecosystems are vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, especially recurrent flash floods, dry spells, and droughts. Over time, the consequences of those events combined with poverty, an over-dependence of rain-fed agriculture, land degradation and limited productivity have...
31 March 2020
“I’ve been a farmer all my life. I had not received any training in agriculture and only used my local knowledge,” says Yohana Zablon (63), a smallholder farmer from Njage Village in Morogoro, Tanzania.
“A few months ago, I was approached...
Agriculture is a critical field to Fijians. In the last several decades, food production has seen a steady decline which has been compounded by Fiji’s vulnerability to climate change, with frequent storms, floods and especially droughts, which can be devastating...