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In Africa, producing food from waste

By Kim Kido

In Africa, producing food from waste

Farmers in southern Africa use composted food scraps, human waste, and livestock manure for many purposes, from enriching soil to feeding fish.

By Kim Kido, Nourishing the Planet / November 23, 2011

The Christian Science Monitor

A worker prunes tomato plants in the Dube AgriZone greenhouse situated at King Shaka International Airport north of Durban, South Africa. Currently 25 acres of produce is farmed under glass in a facility that is climate controlled and recycles water. Elsewhere in Africa, composting and 'integrated management' also make the most of available resources.

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In sub-Saharan Africa where nearly a third of the population is hungry, over a quarter of food produced is lost to spoilage. And the hundreds of millions of livestock on the continent are responsible for degrading almost half of crop land on the continent, which makes up over one-third of overgrazed lands worldwide.