James Tshuma, a small scale farmer, holds a dried up maize crop in his field in Mangwe district, Zimbabwe, Friday, March 22, 2024. Tshuma has lost hope of harvesting anything from his fields. But a patch of green vegetables is thriving in a small garden the 65-year-old is keeping alive with homemade organic manure and fertilizer. James Tshuma, a small scale farmer, holds some of the plant residue he uses to take care of his garden in Mangwe district in Zimbabwe, Friday, March 22, 2024.
“The combination is forcing people to re-look at how things were done in the past like nutrient recycling, but also blending these with modern methods,” said Ngezimana, whose institution is researching the combination of traditional practices with new technologies. “They are organic, fresh and healthy,” shopper Sucdi Hassan said in the capital, Mogadishu. “Knowing that they come from our local farms makes us feel secure.”
The greenhouses also create employment in a country where about 75% of the population is people under 30 years old, many of them jobless. Meanwhile, some pastoralist herders are being forced to change their traditional ways after watching livestock die by the thousands.
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