MOSES HATEGEKA: WHAT AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS SHOULD DO TO BOOST AGRICULTURE?
What African govts should do to boost agriculture? 12th March 2018 African governments, together with banking institutions operating in African countries, must develop a financing model that replaces land as collateral. By Moses Hategeka 'Our son, our farms' soil fertility has for years been drastically declining and so are our farms yields and thus we are poor, food insecure and unable to feed our families well.” We have no collateral to access credit to enable us, purchase fertilisers, inputs, and agricultural equipment like walking tractors for use in tilling our lands. As you can see, most of us are elderly and less energetic, yet the traditional tools we currently use require energetic and young people, who unfortunately have all run to cities in search of better income generating jobs/businesses” says, a group of women smallholder farmers, in Karonga district, Malawi, during our practical on-farm training workshop that included training farmers in the district...