UK farmers have a unique chance to share knowledge and experiences with fellow African farmers this spring in a project run by development charity Send a Cow.
Grow it Global, the charity’s farming and education project, provides a rare insight into how successful sustainable farming is in one of the toughest climates of the world.
Farms across the South West and Midlands will be hosting African farmers who have been helped by Send a Cow’s innovative agricultural training projects, and who are now self-reliant.
Together, the farmers and their African counterparts will build African gardens to showcase the growing techniques that are transforming lives right across Africa. Thousands of local schoolchildren will visit the farms to meet the farmers and learn about global issues such as climate change, food production and sustainability.
This initiative follows DEFRA’s recent Food 2030 strategy, which highlighted the central role of farmers in tackling world food crisis.
Gerald Osborne, a Wiltshire farmer, said: “Farmers all over the world have a vital role in feeding its increasing population. At Send a Cow we have seen time and again how training in sustainable farming techniques can help African smallholder farmers increase yields by up to fivefold.”
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