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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kaamil Ahmed

Africa’s small-scale revolution against big agriculture: five farmers talk greener, better food

A smiling South African woman stands before a field of cabbages and other crops
Women in rural Limpopo, South Africa, have applied agroecology methods to create backyard gardens to combat food insecurity, June 2022. Photograph: Lucas Ledwaba/Alamy

From degraded fields being brought back to fertile life to community gardens flourishing as food co-operatives, a growing revolution is happening in countries across the African continent.

The climate crisis, conflict and the dominance of multinationals with industrial-scale production for export have popularised the concept of agroecology – promoting small-scale farming and farmers, protecting biodiversity and adapting traditional methods that do away with the need for chemicals and expensive fertilisers.

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