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Farming First Speaks to the Farmers Guardian on Small-Scale Farming and Development

May 12, 2009 No comments yet

The Farmers Guardian has written an article about how small-scale farmers can contribute to the fight against a future food crisis.
Farming First’s Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda spoke the growing importance which agriculture is seen to have in global policymaking recently:
The signs are encouraging but we need to make sure the money is invested in long


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