EU funds to promote climate-smart agriculture for smallholder farmers in Southern Africa

The European Union (EU) has availed a €1.5 million fund to help 140 000 smallholder farmers in Southern Africa adopt new innovations aimed at aiding the transition from traditional to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) solutions. The fund will be disbursed through the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), a…

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Alternative planting options – consider indigenous crops for the new season

Current thinking asks that farmers look at the possibilities created by planting a more diverse range of crops by including indigenous crop lines. Africa’s indigenous crops have been largely neglected for decades, with exotic crops like maize being the dominant crops. According to Reliefweb, over 29 million people still suffered…

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