POVERTY IS STILL endemic in rural South Africa, despite the ending of the apartheid regime over a decade ago. With poverty comes environmental degradation. Apartheid
requisitioned most of South Africa’s good rural land and gave it to white farmers to run industrialised farms. Black farmers found themselves crammed onto less productive land, in such numbers that it was often damaged or destroyed by their
attempts to farm it.
But in one area of rural South Africa, known as the Transkei, hope is returning, in the form of a method known as Natural Farming. Natural Farming is a long-term programme ...
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