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Farmers embrace permaculture farming to increase food production

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Nancy Nafula, a small-scale farmer from Bumula in Bungoma County abandoned Tobacco farming for high-value crops two years ago.

She is among hundreds of farmers in Western Kenya who have embraced agroecology and permaculture farming as a sure way of producing safe foods amid the effects of climate change.

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