Climate-smart agriculture boosts food security in vulnerable communities Climate-smart agriculture boosts food security in vulnerable communities
Silence Charumbira / Limpho Sello
MATHOLANG Bereng, a widowed mother of two from Makoabating, Mafeteng has freed herself from the clutches of poverty by participating in a drought alleviation project in her district.
Dubbed ‘Improving Adaptive Capacity of Vulnerable and Food Security Populations in Lesotho (IACoV)’, the initiative is a four-year project launched last October and is expected to end in 2024.
The project is being executed by the Lesotho Meteorological Services (LMS) and the Ministry of Forestry, Range and Soil Conservation in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP).
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Masoto
MAFETENG – The Government of Lesotho together
with the People’s Republic of China launched the first ever Solar Power Station
project in the Kingdom of Lesotho, worth M1.1 billion.
The project will
run under the name, Ramarothole 70 Megawatt (MW). According to the Ministry of Energy
and Meteorology Principal Secretary (PS) Themba Sopeng, Ramarothole 70 Megawatt
(MW) solar project was conceptualized around 2015. He said it is the collaboration
between the government of Lesotho and the People’s Republic of China under what
is known as the cooperation agreement which is the forum on Africa Cooperation.
“The project will be a 70MW solar generation project whose first phase is
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