Zambia

Zambia: Money grows on trees, so don’t uproot them (IPS)

admin | September 2, 2019

Jennifer Handondo stands with a group of farmers looking at their fields and thinking. But she’s not thinking about the […]

Nchimunya Mutinta | July 8, 2019

Muketoi Lubinda sits in a chair at his corner shop. He sells peanut butter at Soweto market in the heart […]

admin | October 15, 2018

In the 2017-18 farming season, Fainess Muzyamba decided to abandon her traditional maize crop for sweet potatoes. The 56-year-old lives […]

Filius Jere | September 10, 2018

When Vashity Khumalo attended the funeral of a distant relative in the nearby village of Nyamiya, she saw a fence […]

Filius Jere | March 26, 2018

For the past three years, Lashiwe Zulu has been practicing conservation agriculture with simple methods and tools. She used the […]

admin | January 15, 2018

Damiano Malambo was skeptical about conservation agriculture—until El Nino hit southern Zambia and left millions of people without food. He […]

Filius Jere | October 30, 2017

For years, Paul Lungu and his family lived in a small grass-thatched hut on the outskirts of Lundazi town, in […]

Jaime Little | October 2, 2017

In the course of almost fifty years as a radio broadcaster, Filius Chalo Jere has become “a father figure” to […]

admin | September 11, 2017

Aaron and Mervis Mumba are legends in the village of Kasuza in eastern Zambia, along the border with Mozambique. The […]

Filius Jere | July 31, 2017

When Tasila Tembo’s drunken husband deserted her and left her to care for four children, her only option was to […]