By Mamello Masote
With Lesotho in the grip of a food security crisis - declared an emergency by Prime Minister Tom Thabane in early August - conservation agriculture is being expanded aggressively in the country. Matshidiso Mojake, head of the national disaster management authority in Lesotho, said food production has fallen 77% in a year.
About 725,000 people, or 40% of the population of 1.9 million, are said to depend for a living on subsistence farming.
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