Climate change doesn't work on our schedule

For the first time since ISPAAD’s inception, government had decided that of the five hectares it provides communal farmers with inputs for, it would only support two hectares for maize. The balance would have to be alternatives.

The idea, as explained by the Agriculture ministry technocrats, was to push farmers towards alternatives and reduce the domination of maize, a crop that has suffered the worst of the strengthening climate change effects in the past decade.