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Science: Not Just a Western Sector, It Can Help Africa Too

By Busani Bafana
Small-scale farmer Augustine Sibanda has grown resilient traditional sorghum varieties passed down through generations but has increased his yields after he adopted improved seed varieties developed through research.

Weak Agriculture Finance Feeds Malnutrition in Zimbabwe

By Ignatius Banda
Successive poor harvests have diminished Ndodana Makhalima's household food stocks and the family’s nutrition status.

A subsistence farmer in Lupane, about 110 kilometres north of Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, 56 year-old Makhalima has learnt to live with hunger on his door step.


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