SUBSISTENCE FARMING

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The biggest single threat to food security in South Africa is the lack of subsistence farming. Subsistence/smallholder agriculture can play an important role in reducing the vulnerability of rural and urban food-insecure households, improving livelihoods, and helping to mitigate high food price inflation. Although subsistence farmers often have a wealth of knowledge after generations of subsistence farming, there’s scope to build on this learning to teach them how to farm more intensively, while still farming sustainably. Methods such as crop rotation, rotational grazing and monitoring of soil health can be incorporated into subsistence farming to help yield better long-term results. And by learning to monitor and manage their crops more effectively, subsistence farmers have the opportunity to turn their food source into a livelihood
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