The future of farming in Africa: Fighting climate change and conflict | DW News
Climate change is increasingly posing a challenge to agriculture development in Africa. The destruction caused by floods and the devastation by droughts across the continent demonstrate the threat posed by the unpredictable weather patterns.
This year, Zimbabwe is expecting its biggest harvest of maize in 20 years, a sign that the country could be ending its cycle of food deficits due to successive droughts and a troubled land reform program undertaken in the early 2000's.
Official data shows the country will harvest about 2.7 million metric tons of the staple grain. This would be almost 200 percent higher than last year.
Maize is a staple crop across much of eastern and southern Africa - and it's not just climate change that's causing problems, the Fall Army Worm is too. It's actually the caterpillar of a moth, native to the US. But it hasn't stayed there - the pest is spreading around the world, ruining harvests, like in southern Africa in 2017. But one project in Ghana is helping farmers to fight back against the hungry caterpillars with a smartphone app.
The Global Hunger Index says the western African country of Cameroon experiences moderate levels of hunger - but here conflict is the main reason for food insecurity. Farming has been greatly disrupted in the country’s Far North region where the army is fighting against a Boko Haram insurgency and the West where English speaking separatists are trying to create a breakaway state.
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It is good to promote mechanised farming in Africa,so many African farmers still practicing underdeveloped farming methods, climate change is not supposed to affect todays farming around the world.
Good job Zimbabwe!
Praise The Lord .... I love knowing Zimbabwe has enough food to feed the people. Praise God praise God praise God
How come no one is talking about the drought tolerant GMO corn? It is what saves Africa.
@kabzaify
3 жыл бұрын
GMO is illegal in Zimbabwe
Africa needs irrigation systems for farming in rural areas
Arid portions of Africa will benefit greatly from SWRT Solutions subsurface membrane technology which is presently being tested in Kenya. This water and nutrient saving technology is delivering 5 to 7 times more crop on small holder farms.
Now The Government should find funds for Mechanization and Manicaland and Mashonaland has a lot of parenial rivers and they can capitalize in irrigation.
Timely , interesting ...
DW should focus on creating these kind of documentaries.
@mzee5533
3 жыл бұрын
Are you new to DW? They’ve a ton of
Supporting their farming is better than food aid i guess....
Sound quality is awful
Zimbabwe government must to do irrigation systems for farming in rural areas
Monocultures and factory farms are not an viable option. Aquaponics and farming in cities combined with smaller permaculture farms and massive rewilding projects are needed. The dependence on fertilizer and ...-cides and massive amounts of water combined with weather uncertainty are possible points of failure to destabilize food security globally.
Zimbabwe needs irrigation systems for farming in rural areas
Save Our Planet
That Zimbabwean land reform really was a giant success. Within a few years everybody become a millionaire and then a billionaire and then a trillionaire...
@mzee5533
3 жыл бұрын
😂 😂 😂 have you ever been to Zimbabwe mate or you’re making a judgment after watching this 2min clip
@solomonreal1977
3 жыл бұрын
@@mzee5533 he didn't even last 2 minutes
@falkjanen5050
3 жыл бұрын
@@mzee5533 No, I haven't been there yet, but I have a basic understanding of economics. Good enough to understand that expropriating highly qualified and experienced entrepreneurs and replacing them with corrupt and incompetent party leeches is not a good idea... At least as long as you care about not starving.
@cgustafson240
3 жыл бұрын
@@falkjanen5050 they missed your joke. And probably don't know about the hyperinflation that took hold after.
Africa is the least CO2 producer Stop with this global warming growth suppression Talk to the west about this The world should be paying Africa for the CO2 credits Cheers from west Africa 🦅
Geoengineering
Ueueueueuueu oasas
Unujh
Why West media is not reporting human rights violation from Israel and India?
@hassanijaz6735
3 жыл бұрын
@@TubeWusel You should not defend any state terrorist. Google is showing pictures of Palestinians children and women who lost their lives due to air strikes from Israel. Social media giants are under attack from India government because they are showing true Covid-19 situation in the country.
Good job Zimbabwe!