Tag: Zimbabwe

  • Zimbabwe Adopts Plan to Protect Rights of Small Farmers

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    Jeffrey Gogo’s latest piece in The Herald outlines how the Plan for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) “aims to ‘catalogue, protect and promote’ cultivated indigenous crops as well as wild plants and fruits” in Zimbababwe. The National Strategy and Action Plan for Plant Genetic Resources For Food and Agriculture is based on protection…

  • Agroecology – A Potentially World-Saving Concept

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    In his recent article “How to Feed the World” on the World Policy Blog,  Alvaro Rodriguez notes that our current industrial food system is failing to feed the world. Today roughly 15 percent of the world’s population, some 1 billion people, goes hungry. At the same time, fertilizer overuse remains a major cause of environmental…