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Mongabay (mongabay@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 01:19:31 JST Mongabay

Coffee accounts for only around 11% of Malawi’s agricultural exports, but the crop is a key source of livelihood for thousands of smallholder farmers in the country.
A coffee agroforestry project by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Slow Food Coffee Coalition implemented in Malawi and Uganda is promising to tackle some of the challenges and make small-scale coffee farming more profitable.
By Charles Mpaka
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/coffee-agroforestry-holds-promise-for-smallholder-growers-in-malawi/
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  Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi
  
  from Jeremy Hance
  
  RUMPHI, Malawi — In the villages below Nyika Plateau in northern Malawi’s Rumphi district, coffee rules. It’s one of the most common bushes in the region, grown in back and front yards or in open fields where, elsewhere, maize would have been cultivated. Here, coffee shares space with banana and other fruit trees around fishponds […]

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