Tagged: small-scale farmers
A new report, Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction: Bouquets and Beans from Kenya, has been released by Oxfam and International Procurement and Logistics (IPL).
How can we fix the food system? If the system is all of us, and the huge corporations are running the show, that's a pretty daunting task, right? Well it doesn't have to be. The GROW Method explains how you can make a difference.
On the winding road between Kigali and the Burundi border, behind the unassuming gates of a compound in Rulindo, a new technology is on the verge of revolutionizing pineapple production to benefit poor and vulnerable farmers.
Adjitti Mahamat works in an Oxfam market garden in the Guera region of Chad, affected by drought. She eats the vegetables from this garden or sell them to essentially buy millet. She talks about how difficult it is to live with so little food.
As a result of climate change and its impact on food production, small-scale women farmers in the Western Cape of South Africa are now eating less or nothing at all, and saving the little food they do produce for their families to eat.

