Sustainable Development Perspectives

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"Lack of gratitude is as the sin of witchcraft" -  (My Translation of a common Shona Proverb) Sometime back I asked for your support in the YoBloCo , Young Agriculture Blogger Competition.  I would really like to thank all those who voted for this blog, and all those who found time just to look at my blog and read the posts. I know time is expensive for you all to make detailed comments on each posts, BUT I also know that you read my blog, because the number of views has kept on increasing to over a 1,500 views now! I am very pleased to share with you that even though the Barefoot E-ssue did not make it into the top 12 Blogs, we sure did get a special mention from CTA! Check out the News item here !  In the same regard, I would also like to extend my warm gratitude to the Technical Center for Agricultural  and Rural Cooperation ( CTA ) for organizing the Web 2.0 Training that introduced me to blogging and birthed the Barefoot E-ssue. By the way, I started the

Sustainable Food Future = grow more food (with less resources)   + grow more people who love to grow more food (in a more sustainable way) I am quite happy to be communicating with the world again after a significant period of silence. Things have been a bit hectic but pretty exciting. I have had the privilege of joining a group of representatives from one my country's largest farmer representative body (you can check 'em out here ) in visiting their farmers  around the country. Young people are the dominant drivers of African agri-food markets transformation- Picture by Mabel Hungwe  The most intriguing aspect of the visits I was privileged to join, is the evidence of young innovative and resilient agro-preneurs that are emerging across the African rural and rural-urban food markets landscape. From the far country side to the budding rural towns, ant-army like busy groups of young agriculture entrepreneurs are producing and moving food in a manner we have not