food
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Prophet Uebert Angel donates maize meal to Norton community
Prophet Uebert Angel continues with his humanitarian aid to the needy during the COVID-19 when he donated food hampers to the needy in Norton community. The wealthy businessman, philanthropist and man of the Cloth through his Uebert Angel Foundation recently donated tonnes of maize meal as part of a US$250 000 purse allocated to Zimbabwe.…
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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Farming
By Dr Vandana Shiva George Monbiot’s Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet is a dystopian vision of the future, with no people on the land, and humans eating fake food produced in giant industrial factories by genetically engineered microbes. As Monbiot concludes in his article “Farmfree food will…
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Questions that must be answered before poor countries import or export food
By Charles Dhewa In the absence of evidence-based agricultural policy formulation and implementation, most developing countries always rush to import food without sufficiently understanding their national contexts. During gluts, farmers in areas where fruits are produced in abundance do not benefit from selling nationally compared to when there are shortages. On the other hand, when…
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Hivos “Disrupt!FOOD!” programme promoting clean energy and sustainable food systems
By Byron Mutingwende The “DisruptFOOD!” programme by Hivos that focuses on renewable green energy and sustainable food systems has seen the advent of simple smart technologies to promote good health and wellbeing. Dr. Ephraim Whingwiri, the Founder and Director of Zim Earthworm Farms has come up with an interesting innovation that promotes the…