What Can Happen When You’re Given a Chance
July 2, 2025
After she divorced while still in college, Zeleness received a piece of land from her mother for cultivating maize. On top of struggling to finish her degree and raise her […]
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Vegetable Farming for a Brighter Tomorrow
April 15, 2024
Alphonse, the head of one of the approximately 400 farming households in the program, says growing vegetables had been a new concept for him. Before receiving training, he and his […]
Community Cooperation Abounds
November 4, 2022
Small-scale farmers are learning the principles of conservation agriculture to break the cycle of poverty, which is due in part to rising population, soil degradation and drought. As they practice […]
Conservation Ag Outperforms Slash-and-Burn
June 24, 2022
Mr. Mumba is producing more vegetables in his farm garden with conservation agriculture techniques than he was ever able to with traditional slash-and-burn practices. And he says his produce is […]
Where Pigs Grow on Trees (Sort Of)
May 19, 2022
It turns out that a banana plantation is a great place to raise a pig. The eighteen-month wait between pulling out old banana trees grown for beer and waiting for […]