{"id":919,"date":"2023-10-13T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/?p=919"},"modified":"2023-12-19T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T11:35:33","slug":"pelum-commemorates-the-6th-zambian-traditional-seed-and-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/pelum-commemorates-the-6th-zambian-traditional-seed-and-food-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"PELUM Commemorates the 6th Zambian Traditional Seed and Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 6th<\/sup> Zambian traditional seed and food festival, an annual event organized by a consortium of civil society organizations and meant to promote local seeds for seed sovereignty, local foods for nutrition and income generation PELUM Zambia under the Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in Southern Africa (KHSA) and in collaboration with a 15-member consortium of civil society organizations advocating for environmental sustainability through organic agriculture and agroecology has brought together smallholder farmers from the 10 provinces of Zambia to celebrate local seeds, share and exchange local seeds as well as knowledge for food and nutrition security in a changing climate.\u00a0 This year under the theme;\u00a0 \u201cCelebrating Traditional Seeds and Foods For Healthy, Safe and Nutritious Food for the People, Planet and the Economy\u201d, the farmer dialogue proceeded the exhibition with more than 60 smallholder farmers participating. is on today.<\/p>\n

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Trophies won by PELUM at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PELUM exhibition stand at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PELUM exhibition stand at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PELUM farmers pose for a picture at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A variety of local seeds exhibited at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Members of the public visit stands at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Members of the public visit stands at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Diversity of local foods and seeds exhibited at the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The 6th Zambian traditional seed and food festival, an annual event organized by a consortium of civil society organizations and meant to promote local seeds for seed sovereignty, local foods for nutrition and income generation PELUM Zambia under the Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in Southern Africa (KHSA) and in collaboration with a 15-member consortium of civil society organizations advocating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"post_slider_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n-1080x800.jpg",1080,800,true],"post_slider_layout_portrait_large":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n.jpg",1080,809,false],"post_slider_layout_square_large":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n.jpg",1080,809,false],"post_slider_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"post_slider_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n-600x809.jpg",600,809,true],"post_slider_layout_square":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"full":["https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/358098917_693929602831614_1068273504277584979_n.jpg",1080,809,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelumzambia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}