Conservation agriculture working group & National task forces

Southern Africa has an estimated 300 million people to feed. Industrialization is still in its infancy. This leaves agriculture as the main stay for an estimated 70% of the region’s population. In spite of this, smallholder agriculture is still largely a fragile, low productivity, low production and low return venture for most smallholder farming households in the region. According to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), 26 to 41.2 million Southern Africa’s experienced food and nutrition insecurity between 2015 and 2019.  Read More