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Once on the verge of being forgotten in some parts of Africa, Indigenous agricultural knowledge is poised to make a comeback. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the developing world, a partnership between the International Development Research Centre and Canadian Geographic.
Visit the Charting Change website to read “From old plants and old ways, a new African agriculture”.
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