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Sustainable food for self reliant communities
The poorest people are closest to the soil, but this soil is often spent, dry exposed & eroded. We wish to develop further our teaching farm & outreach in Lesotho to trap moisture, use cover crops, nitrogen fix & produce foods via companion planting.
The beauty of the project is that its scalable & replicable.
Changing weather patterns which deliver irregular rainfall often in destructive storm events leads for very challenging growing conditions. When you are subsistence farmer reliant on what you grow to live off - this is high stakes. We seek assistance to develop our conservation agriculture teaching farm to offer workshops & cover crops to local then regional farmers. We then wish to train the trainers to do outreach work harnessing every rainfall event turning potential hazards into resources.
This can rise depending on finance - we have local capacity.
We employ 2 local farmers, managed by a local group and overseen by a C A expert & bi weekly reports
We work alongside local academics & best practices & liaise with govt departments to prompt change.