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Transforming Makueni: Gender, Climate & Conservation Agriculture

9 months ago20 min- plays

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Makueni County is no stranger to drought and food insecurity. But across its villages, farmers, many of them women, are reshaping the future of their land through minimum tillage, cover cropping, and indigenous seed systems. In this episode, Steve Mokaya reports on how conservation agriculture, supported by the African Conservation Tillage Network, is rebuilding soil health, strengthening nutrition, and shifting long-held cultural norms around land and decision-making.</span>

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