Best intentions don't always translate into best practice, as David Dzama found out to his cost. At first, conservation agriculture seemed liked the solution to the climate change-linked problems facing the smallholder farmer in Zimbabwe's Seke district, about 50 kilometres south of Harare.
"When donors introduced conservation agriculture to us, our hopes were raised," Dzama, 60, told IRIN. "They said it would give us good yields, and hunger would be a thing of the past."
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