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Fatoumata Dousou scatters rice seed in a field near Kolda, Senegal, July 26, 2012. \"There was no harvest last year,\" she says. Oxfam\'s cash program is aimed at helping not only the direct participants - the people we have identified as most vulnerable - but also the struggling local vendors and farmers like Mballo who need paying customers in the market to buy their produce.

The real seeds producers: Small-scale farmers save, use, share and enhance the seed diversity of the crops that feed Africa

Introduction: Seed is life Farming started when local communities started collecting, planting and selecting seeds – modifying them to meet their needs in the process. Today’s seed also embodies centuries of…

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