In Diversity There is Strength: Moving beyond the Green Revolution in Zambia

Excerpted from Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (New Press 2019), Chapter 5.

Farmers-in-training for organic, post-Green Revolution farming at Zambia’s Kasisi Agricultural Training Center.

At the Kasisi Agricultural Training Center outside Lusaka, the innovation pipeline was flowing freely, and Kasisi’s innovators had long since shifted their focus to organic agriculture. As Kasisi director…