Bigger and healthier maize is helping to counter the effects of severe drought caused by the warming effects of an El Nino weather system that has swept across southern Africa making more than 30 million people in the region dependent on food aid.
New varieties of the most important staple food…
6 July 2016, Rome - Combined efforts to prevent further human suffering, strengthen resilience and safeguard livelihoods in the wake of El Niño's devastating effects worldwide must be rapidly ramped-up by governments and the international community, United Nations (UN) leaders said today.
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I am a Zimbabwean working at the interface of formal and informal agriculture markets where I see amazing innovations daily. Having grown up with cow-dung between my toes, I have practised agriculture from birth. If you ask me: Is it really possible to kill two birds with one stone? My answer is…
Education, Cultivation and Transformation of local bamboo to boost rural livelihood and generate grass roots green economy.
An Accountant by profession interested in agricultural development
Chief Research Officer within Crop Breeding Institute in the Department of Research & Specialist Services in Zimbabwe responsible for coordinating Research &D activities of legume and roots and tuber crops. Also the national bambara groundnut breeder. Trained in Agriculture with…
PhD Researcher at Wageningen University in Food Quality and Design
The DLVS is a department within the Min of Agriculture which is specifically for Veterinary research services at national level