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In Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, urban farmers are boosting food supplies with home and community gardens. Courtesy Blessings Masuku

Urban farming helps Johannesburg’s poorest households survive – now it needs bigger investment

From roadside plots to community gardens, urban farmers in Alexandra township, South Africa are growing food, earning income and coping with climate change.
Planting groundnuts on a family farm in Uganda. Badru Katumba/Getty Images

Millions of farmers in Africa’s Great Lakes region face rising temperatures. Study predicts how crop disease and pests could spread

Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.

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