Creating an Evergreen Agriculture in Africa
- Publisher:
- World Agroforestry Centre
- Publication Date:
- 1 December 2013
- Tags:
- Africa, Food and Agriculture, Agribusiness
Hundreds of thousands of smallholders in Zambia and Malawi have begun to pioneer two farming systems, which are helping to restore exhausted soils and dramatically increase yields and incomes. Combined with one another, and adapted and scaled-up across the African continent, these two systems, conservation agriculture with trees, and maize agroforestry, just might have the potential to foster an 'evergreen agriculture' that could benefit millions more farmers.
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