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Currently we are focussing on Malawi, Uganda, and Tanzania. Anyone who has an interest in farming in Africa, and who shares our aims and values, is welcome to joins us.
I wonder if members have seen this opportunity to link with the Caribbean and Latin America through ELLA (Evidence and Lessons from Latin America. They have a new online Learning Alliances feature.
I attach the link here ella.practicalaction.org/learningalliances/introduction/
Which type of maize varieties should be used to cope up with the current climate change for example currently there is a change in the amount of rainfall in different areas in Malawi and also rain either starts early or late than expected
Today, in the pages of the Independent, is the beginning of a nice row on GM seeds. Apparently, according to the articles, the Action Aid people in Uganda have been telling the world that GM is bad for you! This message is accompanied by the picture of a rat with a, GM related, tumour. It was a local person on the team that included this information in their literature. Their office in London made them take it down quickly. London is the main funder of the work they undertake in Uganda and they did not want to back what is patently a lie.
It says all the right things - that Africa can feed itself, that there is plenty of land, that productivity in Africa can increase enormously, and so on. But then it goes off the rails because it misses a key factor; that the conditions in Africa are not the same as in North America.
Please can someone assist with advivce on which Aid organisations and NGOs currently supply seed and fertilisers for emerging farmers in Malawi and Rwanda?
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