Environment & Land
Contemporary (2000–present)
Climate-smart agriculture in SADC — the implementation gap behind the rhetoric
2 min · Apr 9, 2026
Tendai Chigumba
Southern African food sovereignty, smallholder agriculture
Verified contributor
Agronomist who grew up on a Murehwa communal-area maize plot in Zimbabwe. Tracks how seed-system politics, fertilizer subsidies, and weather extremes play out at household scale across SADC.
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Threads by Tendai Chigumba
Economic Systems
Contemporary (2000–present)
Ghana's cocoa collapse — Cocobod debt, farmgate prices, and a smuggling economy
1 min · Apr 1, 2026
Culture & Traditions
Contemporary (2000–present)
Bemba kalindula and the Zambian musical economy
2 min · Mar 22, 2026
Economic Systems
Contemporary (2000–present)
Tanzania's cashew board collapse — the 2018 export crisis and what came after
1 min · Mar 19, 2026
Economic Systems
Contemporary (2000–present)
Food sovereignty in SADC — why fertilizer subsidies keep coming back and what they actually buy
3 min · Mar 8, 2026
Modern Solutions
Contemporary (2000–present)
Pfumvudza and Zimbabwe's conservation agriculture turn — yields, but at what cost?
5 min · Mar 2, 2026
Environment & Land
Contemporary (2000–present)
Bambara groundnut, fonio, teff — the orphan crops that aren't orphans
2 min · Feb 7, 2026
Environment & Land
Contemporary (2000–present)
Pfumvudza scaling — Zimbabwe's conservation agriculture programme at five years
2 min · Feb 2, 2026
Economic Systems
Contemporary (2000–present)
ZIMRA tariff bands and smallholder maize — the unintended consequences
2 min · Jan 16, 2026