Honors horticulture student Olivia Caillouet traveled to Africa last summer to take part in Global Community Development in Mozambique. (Check out a video on
the program.) This U of A faculty-led service learning program focuses on New Horizons, a poultry farm on a mission to change lives. Food insecurity is a day-to-day, gnawing reality for many families in Nampula.
New Horizons has encouraged workers who raise chicks to supplement their income – and diet – by planting vegetables as cash crops.
Olivia’s project looked at total cost of input, yield, and market price to determine which crop is the best bet for area farmers. She’s presenting her findings at the International People Plant Symposium hosted by the International Society of Horticultural Science in Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 9-13, 2016.
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This is the first carrot harvest of the season. This is a small carrot
that says so much. A majority of the food consumed is corn and the
ability to have other nutrients in the diet could improve the overall
health of locals. Diversity is key to many issues regarding land,
society, and economics.
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