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Food and agriculture

Our solutions

  • Zeer pot fridge
  • Turning compost into food
  • Multiple use water systems
  • Donkey ploughs
  • Floating gardens
  • Rice-fish culture
  • Treadle pump
  • Irrigation
  • Community based extension
  • Rainwater harvesting
  • Adapting rice to saltier water

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  • Building technical capacities
  • Alternative livelihoods
  • Natural resource management
  • Risk reduction
  • Women and Agriculture

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  • Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe's extension system
  • Pathways from Poverty (Shiree Project) Bangladesh
  • Vulnerability to Resilience Project, Bangladesh
  • Improving Food Security in Nepal
  • Improving food security in Bolivia

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  • Agricultural biodiversity
  • More aid for African agriculture
  • Global food crisis: what can be done?
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