Article 2TZC6 'We don't know what they do behind the wall': Zambian women miss out on help

'We don't know what they do behind the wall': Zambian women miss out on help

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Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
from World news | The Guardian on (#2TZC6)

China is setting up agricultural centres across Africa, but in Zambia - where the majority of farmers are female smallholders - few women get the chance to learn

On the highway heading towards Chongwe, 15km south-east of Lusaka, the red Chinese lettering, high flagpoles and gleaming modern architecture of the Zambia Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre (ZATDC) stand out amid the vast fields of maize.

It is one of 25 such centres built across the continent as part of a grand plan to bring agricultural training to local people, helping them produce better crops with higher yields, so that food security is improved for everyone.

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