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‘Small-scale farming’, ‘backyard gardening’, ‘village food production’… call it what you will, this kind of agriculture has received inadequate attention – and is even scorned – as a means of building regional food security. Despite some lip service, the lack of meaningful engagement is evidenced in the lack of support by government departments, financial institutions, markets and even consumers. However, with global climate change and pressures such as COVID-19, commercial production and food distribution networks are failing. Local food production, short supply chains and agro-ecological practices are emerging as an important contributor to food security, and at times even as an alternative to large-scale food producing monopolies. In this webinar we introduce the Agriculture Support Initiative under USAID:RESILIM Olifants and its efforts to support scale-scale farmer networks and agro-ecological skill development in order to build a more resilient and climate-smart means of food production throughout the Olifants Basin.

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