Zimbabwe's climate-resilient crops vital for Africa's food security
Climate change is pushing Zimbabwe's conventional crop value chains toward failure across all five of the country's agroecological regions. Marondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology is betting on vegetables that grew wild for generations, now bred, seeded, and sold back through a farmer network 430 strong.
A Returning Research Chair Bets on Zimbabwe's Diaspora and Its Land
Solusi University is putting more than 100 hectares of its land in rural Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, into agricultural production. Its vice-chancellor, Khumbulani Mpofu, says he also wants a 600 megawatt solar power station there. The university already runs a hatchery producing 140,000 chicks a cycle and a clinic treating 1,000 patients a month, evidence, he argues, that a rural campus can deliver at commercial scale.