Water security and variety replacement for climate change impacted small holder farmers.
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Smallholder farmers have access to the tools they need to consistently provide for their families and educate the next generation through im
Hi Johan, Very interesting vision you present here. It sounds very well developed and a quick google search shows me that you already have this running in a pilot format in Burkina Faso. I'm a little troubled though. This can be potentially transformative for smallholder subsistence farmers. They have the potential for a more balanced diet with it also. But the issue I see is for non-subsistence farmers. Their landholdings can be also relatively small (>1 up to 10ha for example). For this group and also those with even larger farms, how do they get enough produce of a certain food type to make a saleable amount? Non-famers need sources of food too of course. The biggest barriers here are related to scale - yes it can work for small holder subsistence famers, but how would you apply it to larger non-subsistence farms?
Good luck and thanks
Hamish
Hi Claire,
Certainly an interesting vision you present, and I enjoyed reading the back and forth between yourself and Paul in the comments also. As variations of fusarium can be quite dangerous to other crops (up to 100% losses), I'm interested to know if you can provide any more detail on the host-specific nature of that which you present here? Do you have some evidence of that you could share?
Thanks, and good luck!
Hamish
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