From roadside plots to community gardens, urban farmers in Alexandra township, South Africa are growing food, earning income and coping with climate change.
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Development banks have spent over US$1 billion on factory farming in Africa, locking in high greenhouse gas emissions. Natural farming systems are a better choice.
The G20 must collect ancient practices that can help the world withstand climate change so that this knowledge is available for future generations.
Agriculture is not just a victim of climate change. It is key to the solution. It must receive the same attention globally as fossil fuels and energy transitions.
Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
Small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa can produce more food, support more jobs and be more profitable for the local community.
Governments need to re-frame farming as a technologically forward-thinking career for young people.
Hundreds of small-scale farmers in South Africa’s North West province who switched to eco-friendly, climate-smart farming have seen their maize harvest shoot up and their soil improve.
Smallholder contract farmers in Ghana have benefited from loans for fertiliser, drought resistant seeds, guaranteed markets and training in how to farm differently to meet changes in the climate.
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Development, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies
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Ass. Professor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; North-West University
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Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, North-West University
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Lecturer, University of Environment and Sustainable Development
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Circular Food Systems Project: Theme Leader Inclusion, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor
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Principal Scientist, Innovation Systems for the Drylands., CGIAR
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Researcher: DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Director - University of Zimbabwe Business School, University of Zimbabwe
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Full Professor, SARChI Research Chair and Director of Postharvest and Agroprocessing Research Centre, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Lecturer and Research Fellow: Department of Environmental and Occupational Studies in the Faculty of Applied Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
