The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
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- May 29, 2012
- #Agriculture #Africa
At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, th...
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Number of Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781610390675
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Bill Gates @BillGates
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Mar 26, 2014
Roger Thurow movingly chronicles the lives of four Kenyan farmers as they struggle to support their families through the wanjala, Swahili for “hunger season.” This book is both about the importance of investing in Africa’s smallholder farmers and a compelling blueprint for doing it effectively. Thurow shows how, together, we can make this wanjala the last one.