Students become the teachers: How learning from the youth doubled the rice production of a 63-year old farmer
31 March 2020
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...
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Find out how farmers' in Tanzania can sequester more carbon than 175,000 cars produce in a year. A collaboration between CARE, ICRAF and FAO.
28 February 2017
28 February 2017
According to FAO, roughly 2,000 farmers in Tanzania were able to save as many tons of carbon as getting nearly 175,000 cars of the road for a year. How? By using conservation agriculture—and planting more diverse crops, like...
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Through FFS, farmers in Tanzania sequester more carbon than 175,000 cars produce in a year. A collaboration between CARE, ICRAF and FAO.
28 February 2017
28 February 2017
According to FAO, roughly 2,000 farmers in Tanzania were able to save as many tons of carbon as getting nearly 175,000 cars of the road for a year. How? By using conservation agriculture—and planting more diverse crops, like...
Production system: