Mapping a better future for Africa’s farmers

Sep 8, 2020

Ajege Zacharia and wife Victoria Kigbu work on their farm in the midst of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Abuja, Nigeria June 10, 2020. Picture taken June 10, 2020.

GPS trackers were originally used to track submarines during the cold war. Image: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Matt Sommerville

Chief of Party of the USAID-funded program to strengthen land tenure in Ghana, Mozambique, Zambia, and India., USAID

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