HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant...
HARARE , Zimbabwe — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia , farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond toWith over 60% of the world’s uncultivated land, Africa should be able to feed itself, some experts say.
Leaves of drought-resistant plants that were once a regular dish before being cast off as weeds are returning to dinner tables. They even appear on elite supermarket shelves and are served at classy restaurants, as are millet and sorghum.in East Africa, greenhouses are changing the way some people live, with shoppers filling up carts with locally produced vegetables and traditionally nomadic pastoralists under pressure to settle down and grow crops.
The greenhouses also create employment in a country where about 75% of the population is people under 30 years old, many of them jobless. “Transitioning to greenhouse farming provides pastoralists with a more resilient and sustainable livelihood option,” said Mohamed Okash, director of the Institute of Climate and Environment at SIMAD University in Mogadishu.
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