Africa – In Africa, farmers learn new methods for facing drought, floods
In the sweltering
mid-October heat of Matobo, one of Zimbabwe's hottest and driest districts,
Spiwe Moyo tended her ripening tomato crop. Nearby, underneath a baobab tree, a
few emaciated donkeys and a small herd of skinny cattle take shelter from the
blazing sun. Along with the onions, vegetables and green beans grown by other
communal farmers as part of the Evergreen Community Market Garden, Moyo's
tomato crop is a virtual oasis of green, surrounded by bare red soil that
receives little shade from the sparse leaves of the mopani trees and a few
patches of dry grass long desolated by the high temperatures.Read more…
Posted by SJES ROME
- Communications Coordinator in GENERAL CURIA