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Food is life! Do you stop and ask yourself where the food you eat comes from?
Our food system has been overtaken by greedy corporates who put profits before consumers and farmers. Ecological farming has the ability to put power back into farmers hands.

Ecological farming is a viable and more sustainable way of producing safe and healthier food. It does not contaminate the food with chemical inputs, and it protects the health of people and their environment.

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  • Protect the Environment

    Irresponsible Investment

    Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare (ha) rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works with local smallholder farmers through an outgrower model based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technologies. The investment project receives considerable financial and technical…

    Greenpeace Africa
  • Ecological Farmer in Kenya. © Cheryl-Samantha Owen
    Protect the Environment

    Financing Ecological Farming in Africa

    This report provides a resource to the donor community to facilitate the provision of support to ecological farming across Africa. We define donors broadly to include: governments providing bilateral overseas development assistance, multilateral financial institutions, philanthropies, and international (UN) development organisations.

    Greenpeace Africa