Day: March 13, 2023
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How agroecology has improved the lives of Zimbabwe’s smallholder farmers
By Tatenda Chitagu SHASHE, MASVINGO-Elizabeth Mpofu’s homestead resembles an island in sea of poverty. The lush green rapoko, millet, sorghum, orchard and banana plantation on the 63 year-old farmer’s twelve hectare plot illuminates the neatly structured houses in the dry and arid Zvemahande resettlement area, about 20 kilometers north-east of Mashava mining town, west of…