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Breaking the cycle of poor harvests
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With GCF-funding, Farmer Field Schools are helping farming communities in Zambia become better equipped with knowledge & capacity to adapt & turn climate risks into climate resilience.
For years, Kennedy Chilepa struggled to eke out a living growing maize and cowpeas on his farm in Zambia’s Mambwe District, where crop yields often take a big hit due to severe dry spells and floods, jeopardizing food security.
Chilepa and many small-scale farmers in the country’s east had long relied on traditional farming methods to manage their crops. But such traditional know-how has become increasingly unreliable and are no longer sufficient to cope with a changing climate. ....

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