The art of learning - How science is assisting emerging farmers in Limpopo

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Water for food The art of learning – how science is assisting emerging farmers in Limpopo It was a call from the European Union’s (EU’s) 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (otherwise known as FP7) in 2010 that spawned the EAU4Food project, coordinated by the Alterra Institute at the Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands. The project’s full name, ‘European Union and African Union cooperative research to increase food production in irrigated farming systems in Africa’ , reflects the fact that it was rolled out in five countries on the African continent – South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Mali and Tunisia. The South African partner organisations were Stellenbosch University, represented by Dr Willem de Clercq, and the CSIR, represented by Dr Nebo Jovanovic, also based in Stellenbosch. However, the study site was near Giyani in the Letaba Basin, more than 1 600 km away as the crow flies.

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