![]() ![]() “Every disease that cattle and sheep get, you find here,” he said.īut, despite the odds against him, Haigh has transformed his land into “one of the best examples of an agro-ecological farm in Africa,” says Danielle Nierenberg, a senior researcher at the Washington, DC-based Worldwatch Institute, an organization that promotes food production that doesn’t harm the environment. Haigh wanted to farm with cattle and sheep, but he was advised that these conditions – “dry but humid” - would be very harsh on animals. Yet the area also suffers extremely high humidity. It’s situated in what he terms a “rain shadow,” which means surrounding mountains block weather systems that produce rain. ![]() Haigh’s property was also particularly dry. “We started from scratch here – no fencing, a dysfunctional borehole, no water, no pasture…” he told VOA. Haigh, with Danielle Nierenberg, a researcher from international NGO the Worldwatch Institute which says the farmer has one of the best examples of an agro-ecological farm in Africa ![]()
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