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Home » 10.000 Orti in Africa » Chibwe School Garden

Chibwe School Garden

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Zambia

Central

Chibwe School is situated 40 km from Kabwe, a town in the Central Province of Zambia. The school was established in 1979 and has a population of 1,534 pupils from grades 1- 9. The school is proposing to grow various traditional food crops. The garden’s aim is to ensure that families grow healthy and nutritious foods like soy beans, among others. The school garden will be spearheaded by Edwin Chola, the agriculture science teacher. The school has a field that is almost one acre in size which is used as a school garden and when this project starts it will use this same piece of land which is currently lying idle. Like other schools, they want to ensure that their pupils put into practice what they learn during the project implementation.

Area
Kabwe, Kabwe district, Central province

Coordinator
Edwin Chola

Slow Food in Zambia

The Southern African country of Zambia achieved independence from Britain in 1964. Though landlocked, it has enough water resources for agriculture, the primary sector that employs the majority of the population. The main crops are maize, millet and sorghum. As in many African countries, agroindustry is pushing small-scale farmers to adopt an intensive approach based on synthetic chemicals. Zambia’s small Slow Food network is trying to support farmers to return to traditional techniques and crops in order to save the local agrobiodiversity.

Garden Informations

Type:School Garden
Coordinator:Humphrey Katebe
Sibling with:Cultural Corps of Korean Buddhism, South Korea

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