Crop diversification helps protect Zimbabwean farmers from food insecurity

A farmer holds clay bowls containing different varieties of cowpeas during a food and seed fair in Harare, Zimbabwe. FOR 69-year-old Bolleta Chigwida, the secret to achieving food security is not to put all eggs in one basket when it comes to growing crops. Amid an El Nino-induced drought that has cut Zimbabwe’s cereal production by 77 percent and left 60 percent of the country’s population food insecure, Chigwida said growing different varieties of indigenous crops and adopting agricultural practices aligned with traditional customs is a sustainable way to solve the scourge of hunger plaguing the country. “I grow different […]

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