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Drought Dries Up Money from Honey
2016-06-15 15:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "It is everything" is how smallholder farmer Nyovane Ndlovu describes beekeeping, which has long been an alternative sweet source of income for drought-beaten farmers in Zimbabwe. A drought worsened by the El Nino phenomenon -- which has now eased -- led to a write-off of crops in many parts of Zimbabwe and across the Southern Africa region where more than 28 million people will need food aid this year. More than four million people need assistance in Zimbabwe, which has made an international...
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