Lines, Farmer in Chinjala, Zambia
Lines, 24, is a single mother of two and engages in farming to provide for her children’s basic needs. Out of necessity the women often come to work in the fields with their babies. Without land of her own, Lines must continuously look for day labor in other people’s fields.
“It’s not easy waking up each day wondering if I’ll be able to find work or not.”
Their fields have been supplemented with...
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Lines, Farmer in Chinjala, Zambia
Lines, 24, is a single mother of two and engages in farming to provide for her children’s basic needs. Out of necessity the women often come to work in the fields with their babies. Without land of her own, Lines must continuously look for day labor in other people’s fields.
“It’s not easy waking up each day wondering if I’ll be able to find work or not.”
Their fields have been supplemented with seeds from Good Nature Agro, a social enterprise supplying high-quality legume seed and commodities to help move farmers from poverty to middle class. Especially assisted are the women farmers who control less land than do men, and have limited access to seeds and credit to benefit new economic opportunities. Before new seed varieties are given to farmers to plant, Good Nature Agro firsts tests them out on 70-plus acres of its own farmland, called Foundation Farm. This testing ground has created part-time jobs for over 100 people in the community—people like Lines. Thanks to this program Lines earns a bit more than the average Zambian, taking in more than 1700 Zambian Kwacha (US$80) per month.
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