How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient
"Farmers started planting crops that enhance soil fertility such as peanuts, beans and pigeonpea, which provide a food source as well as other benefits such as a source of cash, livestock feed and even fuelwood. Families had improved child nutrition and food security was enhanced as well as land quality. These methods are now expanding to thousands of farmers through the Malawi Farmer to Farmer Agroecology project."
-Problem: Green Revolution too costly for many small farmers in Africa, puts all eggs in one basket with monocultures, not to mention causes pollution - chemical pesticides, pesticides
-Solution: “Agroecological methods – farming practices that mimic nature by adding organic material to soil, planting trees on cropped fields and using natural enemies to attack insect pests."
Encourage crop diversity, crop rotation - opposite of monoculture:
-"Farmers started planting crops that enhance soil fertility such as peanuts, beans and pigeonpea, which provide a food source as well as other benefits such as a source of cash, livestock feed and even fuelwood."
-Farmers experiment with their own lands, teach other famers directly
http://gizmodo.com/how-low-tech-farming-innovation-can-make-african-farmer-1732271015
I'm a big fan of low-tech. I have a flip phone and even that has too many features.
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