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Strategies farmers can use to maintain healthy ecosystems and productive farms
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Sustainable, market-based agriculture approaches for smallholder farmers and communities
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by Dr Patrice Engle.
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The urgent need to curb global warming
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Root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel
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How farmers across the world are adapting to climate change
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God’s provision of healthy food. ; Read Genesis 1:11-13 and Genesis 1:29-31. ; How does God provide for our need to eat?
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Practical ideas for adding value to food
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Effective storage of food helps provide security and nutrition for households. It also enables food to be sold at higher market prices once the harvest period is past.
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by Dr Patrick Maundu. The Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (KENRIK) has documented all food plants in Kenya. Their work shows the potential of indigenous food plants in improving food security. In Africa, around 4,000 species of plants have the potential for producing food, with about 1,000 species used as leafy vegetables.
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Most people enjoy eating ripe fruit such as mangoes, oranges, bananas and guavas. Children enjoy the taste so much that they will often eat unripe fruit! However, ripe fruit does not store well or travel well to distant markets. Other people’s fruit usually ripens at the same time, so market prices fall, making it hard to sell at a good price. Preserving fruit to enjoy its flavour throughout the year is therefore very important to avoid wastage and increase income. The simplest ways of ...
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Increasing the nutritional value of available food is often easy to do at low cost, simply by combining foods and fruits in different ways. Here are some useful ideas to improve nutrition for both children and adults.
