Category: Pakistan
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Safia’s Homestead: A source of additional Income
Safia bibi, a smallholder farmer from village 36/SB of Sargodha district in Pakistan has come a long way. With her son working as daily wage laborer, the only other income comes from selling milk in her village. Motivated by SAFBIN awareness and capacity building sessions on various topics that included farm diversification, green manuring and…
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Vermi-composting: A solution to Climate Change and Resilience
Climate change has been creating huge challenges to smallholder farms by causing prolonged droughts and erratic rainfall leading to reduced water retention capacity of the soil, increased erosion and biodiversity loss. Agro-ecological practices like composting can increase water efficiency and the building up of healthy soils. Compost that is incorporated into the soil not only…