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Pilot programmes are over – Africa’s agriculture must scale, with women at its heart

Pilot programmes are over – Africa’s agriculture must scale, with women at its heart

Ask African governments how they feel about agricultural innovation and their answer might surprise you. “They’re tired,” says Vanessa Adams, vice-president of Strategic Partnerships at AGRA, an organisation that aims to improve the adaptation of agri-food and farming systems to climate change. “They don’t want any more pilot programmes. Innovations that benefit 5 000 people […]

Makhanda the poster child for municipal collapse

Makhanda the poster child for municipal collapse

The cause goes beyond corruption and incapacity to dysfunctional centralised, bureaucratic rule. The solution lies in decentralised, participatory and direct democratic forms of organisation