By BUUMBA CHIMBULUINVESTMENTS to promote a sustainable green economy that supports the growth of the smallholder farmers will be scaled up by the Community Market for Conservation (COMACO).COMACO and Government, are therefore gearing up for investments to establish the infrastructure, technologies, personnel, value-addition and market relationships to take the smallholder farmers to the next level, says COMACO Communications Manager, George Sichinga.Mr Sichinga explained that this was been done through the new Green Economy and Environment Ministry.A green economy intends to reduce environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment.He indicated that through its model, COMACO boosts a self-financing, sustainable, long term remedy to rural poverty and related social-environmental costs estimated at over US$20 million annually.He pointed out that there were significant cross cutting economic returns to other sector interests such as tourism, agriculture, food retail and forestry.Mr Sichinga said the carbon market voluntary market was projected at more […]
CAMCO TARGETS PROMOTION OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS
