Smallholders left out in the cold

Strong winds blew away the roofs of at least 45 houses in Karakata Ward in Ilala District on Monday, leaving several families out in the cold.

Benedict Mwasyika (not his real name) is a dejected man. He is disappointed because for a third year running he has not been able to get what is worth he has invested in his paddy farm. Like many other residents of Mbarali District in Mbeya Region, Mr Mwasyika, depends on paddy farming.

>Smallholders are still marginalised in the national decision-making platforms with very few policymakers making priority their pressing needs, an advocacy official has said.

Large-scale agricultural investments have grave repercussions for smallholder farming in the Southern Highlands.

>What is left for Europe’s mainstream center-left? Socialist and social democratic parties that shaped the protective European social model and ruled much of the continent a decade ago have been among the chief political casualties of the financial and economic crisis since 2008.

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