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Honourable Mention in the Hunger Tweet Champion Awards!
Back in April, the World Food Programme’s Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, launched the Hunger Tweet Champion Awards. Taking advantage of…
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Tomatoes: Improving lives in Tanzania
Whether you consider them a fruit or a vegetable, it cannot be contested that tomatoes are a great source of nutrients, and for Lucia and other Tanzanian farmers they are also a great source of income!
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Cool Beans: Malawian Farmers Diversify Income through Bean Farming
Ester Kadzakalowa, 38, from Khangale village, Traditional Authority Kabudula in Lilongwe district is one of the farmers who grow common…
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Agricultural technology improving farmers’ lives in Ethiopia
W/ro Shenteme Jarra is a 35 year-old woman who is one of the beneficiaries of CPAR’s Farmers First Food Security…
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Energy-Saving Stoves: Naturally Spectacular!
Women in rural communities have to walk increasingly long distances to look for firewood. This is a tedious, time-consuming burden…
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A Garden Full of Opportunity
Noela Bea is a 44 year old farmer and a widowed single mother of five children in Kambi ya Simba…
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CONTEST: Win Tickets to see Tony Allen in Concert in Toronto
‘Without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat’ – Fela Kuti
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Stories from the Field: Women Farmers Empowered
One of the big perks of working in the Programs Department at CPAR is, without a doubt, the field visit.
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The Face of Giving – Pigs in Tanzania this Christmas!
This little piggy’s going to the market.. CPAR-Tanzania launches a “pig campaign” for the holiday season!
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Appropriate Technology: Appropriate Solution – Reducing Grain Loss in Malawi
In Malawi, maize production and storage is vital to food security, rural development and poverty reduction. Many small-holder farmers experience significant maize loss due to post-harvest pests. An appropriate technology for grain storage was needed to reduce maize losses, financial vulnerability and food insecurity.
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