{"id":4222,"date":"2016-06-02T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2016-12-21T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:21:30","slug":"middlefarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Farm to Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middle Farm to Malawi<\/span><\/h1>

2016<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Shropshire Star Article<\/a>
The Journal Article<\/a>
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\"Screen<\/a>In Spring 2016, Shropshire farmer Sam Gray embarked on a self-funded two-week research trip to Malawi.<\/p>\n

She wanted to see how communities in rural sub-Saharan Africa lived on the land, and look at first hand how small-scale farming was carried out by farmers\u00a0who had few assets, yet were entirely dependant on their land to support themselves and their families.<\/p>\n

Did people in Malawi approach farming differently than in England, were the challenges they faced of another order of magnitude entirely? \u00a0Or, was there a common thread running through the experiences of smallholder farmers\u00a0in Southern Africa, and the issues affecting Sam on her own small-holding in South Shropshire.<\/p>\n

She met with village communities, women’s groups and individual farm producers during her trip, and also saw at first hand the work that Shrewsbury-based development organisation Self Help Africa was doing to improve farm production amongst rural poor communities in the country.<\/p>\n

Sam Gray wrote about her experiences in local media. \u00a0Click on the buttons to the left hand side to read two accounts from her recent trip.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Shropshire farmer and writer travelled to Malawi this year to see for herself how small-scale farmers live off the land in this southern African country.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677,637],"tags":[70,211,741,740],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malawi","category-news","tag-farming","tag-malawi","tag-sam-grey","tag-shropshire"],"yoast_head":"\nMiddle Farm to Malawi - Self Help Africa UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sam Grey's Middle Farm to Malawi trip took her to the Southern African country to see small scale agriculture at first hand.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Middle Farm to Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sam Grey's Middle Farm to Malawi trip took her to the Southern African country to see small scale agriculture at first hand.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Self Help Africa UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SelfHelpAfrica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-02T12:01:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-21T16:21:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-12.39.321.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"819\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"548\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@comms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@selfhelpafrica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Self Help Africa\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/#\/schema\/person\/ef27df5dc9e961797418d7a8bf315404\"},\"headline\":\"Middle Farm to Malawi\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-02T12:01:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-21T16:21:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/\"},\"wordCount\":583,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-12.39.321.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Farming\",\"Malawi\",\"sam grey\",\"shropshire\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Malawi\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/middlefarm\/\",\"name\":\"Middle Farm to Malawi - 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