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Mother of four Alice Banda grows cotton and maize on the small family farm where she lives in Eastern Zambia. Recently Alice has also become a groundnut seed producer. She is amongst 6,000 small-scale growers now supplying seed to a local firm who trade groundnut seed with farmers across Zambia and in a number of other Southern African countries.

The Tonga people of Zambia face greater challenges than most. Forced from their tribal lands a half century ago when the newly-built Kariba Dam flooded huge swathes of the Zambezi River basin to create the world’s largest man-made lake, the displaced Tonga were resettled on poorer lands around the fringes of the lake shore, and they remain some of the poorest and most marginalised people in the country.