Largely because commercial farmers have shifted to cash crops such as tobacco and horticulture, smallholder farmers now account for 70-80% of food production in Zimbabwe, and they have little access to credit, according to Danisile Hikwa, Principal Dir…
Maize plays a pivotal role in the livelihoods of people in southern Africa: its annual per capita consumption is around 85 kg. In the past season, however, farmers in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and much of Zimbabwe experienced a severe droug…
CIMMYT posted a photo: Maize in the field in Islamabad, Pakistan, being grown for use as fodder for livestock. Photo credit: A. Yaqub/CIMMYT. For the latest on CIMMYT in Pakistan, see: blog.cimmyt.org/?s=Pakistan.
CIMMYT posted a photo: “When farmers see the seed and they like it, that’s something that really motivates me, on behalf of all the people that are making the effort in seed processing and field production,” says Bidasem director general María E…
