KUMAKOMO TRUST is a civil service organisation based in Mutare, Zimbabwe. The trust engages rural youth in Agricultural training and generates content which is shared through a community radio station. Kumakomo Community Trust has members who have attended a number of international agricultural…
To mark the upcoming International Day of Rural Women on 15th October, the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems has released a special update including:
Key Gender Research Studies and Highlights from Dryland Systems work over the past year.
Two publication reviews of recent gender-…
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.