Fieldwork at the sugarcane areas of NE Swaziland

​Alexandros Gasparatos and Marcin Jarzebski visited Swaziland between 4 and 21 March. They trained a team that will collect in excess of 600 household surveys for project Food Security outcomes of Industrial Crop expansion in Sub-Sahara Africa, FICESSA in sugarcane and cotton growing areas at the Northeast of the country. They also organized a workshop to identify potential causal links between sugarcane production and food security in the region. This event brought together some of the key players in the region such as the Royal Swaziland Sugarcane Company (RSSC), the Swaziland Water and Agricultural Development Enterprise SWADE), sugarcane growers’ associations and traditional authorities