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Reflections
As we settle back into campus life and classes, we wanted to briefly reflect on our time in Botswana and with Sereledi Farms…. Ernest Bethe IV I found my time in Botswana to be incredibly informative, inspiring, and humbling. I was able to significantly grow my working knowledge in basic dairy processing, allowing myself to…
Reaching for Resilience on a Dry Riverbed
Botswana’s Rain-Fed Agriculture Botswana’s agricultural sector is dominantly rain-fed, meaning reliant on rainy seasons for food crops, animal pastures, fodder production, and water availability for humans, crops, and animals. This reliance engenders stark vulnerability; a change in the timing and intensity of rainfall can devastate food production, starve out livestock herds, and deplete water sources,…
Very Dairy Diary
Fresh or sour, milk is an incredibly popular product within Botswana. Whether it is the daily consumption of fresh milk with Nescafe or the celebratory sour milk, madila, the nation holds a special place for dairy products. Despite this drive for dairy, Botswana experiences a large deficit in local production and imports nearly 90% of…
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SMART 2020: Botswana 