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-The key point is replenishing soil fertility by using natural resources, mainly nitrogen from the air
+The key point is replenishing soil fertility by using natural resources, mainly nitrogen from the air with leguminous tree fallows and phosphorus from small indigenous rock phosphate deposits in artisanal ways. And there are no transportation costs because the trees are grown during the dry season in the same fields where maize grows during the rainy season. Some 22,000 farmers using tree fallows in Malawi report they are not suffering from hunger this year, because the increased water-holding capacity of soils is ameliorating the current drought. Scaling up from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions is the challenge. The main responses needed are transmission of knowledge, supply systems for tree seeds and political will. This will provide the food security for the local people which is the base for the future development, which after this point will be much more easier.
-with leguminous tree fallows and phosphorus from small indigenous rock phosphate deposits in artisanal ways. And there are no transportation costs because the trees are grown during the dry season in the same fields where maize grows during the rainy season. Some 22,000 farmers using tree fallows in Malawi report they are not suffering from hunger this year, because the increased water-holding capacity of soils is ameliorating the current drought. Scaling up from hundreds
- of thousands to hundreds of millions is the challenge. The main responses needed are transmission of knowledge, supply systems for tree seeds and political will.
-This will provide the food security for the local people which is the base for the future development, which after this point will be much more easier.
 The next steps:
-Improvement of the crop varieties and improvement of water management, which will reduce the threat of harvest destruction by the climate change.
-Diversification toward high value products. This will ensure better profits to the farmers
-Investments to the rural infrastructure, marketing, and information to enable better management and higher efficiency (by enabling farmers to take up improved technologies).
-Build capacity in planning and implementation of interventions at national, community and local levels.
-Reduction of the impact of negative MNCs behavior on the farmers through the government regulation and various NGOs activities (like fair trade label, which ensures that the producer received appropriate wage)
-Ensure the fair rules in global trade that do not favor the stronger players but are the same for everybody.
+*Improvement of the crop varieties and improvement of water management, which will reduce the threat of harvest destruction by the climate change.
+*Diversification toward high value products. This will ensure better profits to the farmers Investments to the rural infrastructure, marketing, and information to enable better management and higher efficiency (by enabling farmers to take up improved technologies).
+*Build capacity in planning and implementation of interventions at national, community and local levels.
+*Reduction of the impact of negative MNCs behavior on the farmers through the government regulation and various NGOs activities (like fair trade label, which ensures that the producer received appropriate wage)
+*Ensure the fair rules in global trade that do not favor the stronger players but are the same for everybody.
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