{"id":7731,"date":"2017-10-31T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=7731"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:18:37","slug":"zambia-farming-helps-stable-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/zambia-farming-helps-stable-lives","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: El programa agr\u00edcola de ADRA ayuda a llevar una vida estable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/adra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ZAMBIA-17-0009-e1511990213599-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ZAMBIA-17-0009-e1511990213599-683x1024-1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/adra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ZAMBIA-17-0009-e1511990213599-683x1024-1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2>Tembwe* has 10 children and every day he has felt the pain of only being able to feed them one small meal of nshima, a dish made with maize flour, a day. Like any parent, he dreamed of a bright future for each of them\u2014but\u00a0instead, he was simply hoping they\u2019d survive.<\/h2>\n<p>Tembwe\u00a0is a 51-year-old farmer living in Zambia. He supports his\u00a0family of 12, including his wife and eight of their own kids, as well as two orphan children from his late sister.<\/p>\n<p>Added to that, Tembwe has been incredibly sick.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOn my worst days, I experience severe fever, rashes, and fungus all over my body, and my body rejects food and water. Once, I could only stomach one tablespoon of water a day. One time I had all these symptoms for three months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with this, Tembwe has been trying to focus on securing a better future for his kids. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How do you do that without an income?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Things started to turn around when he met a lead farmer from an ADRA farming program. The farmer trained Tembwe on compost farming, intercropping, seed multiplication, winter farming, and crop protection. Tembwe now has crops successfully growing on all of his 8 hectares. His maize is already 12 feet tall, and the harvest is still three months away!<\/p>\n<p>If the weather conditions stay good, he plans on selling 200 50-kilogram [110-pound] bags of maize\u2014an income of $3,000!<\/p>\n<p>Tembwe&#8217;s plans for the future are exciting. \u201c&#8230;I want to buy a pump to irrigate my crops \u2026 and more livestock for manure and food. I also want to put my kids through high school, so they can look after me and take over the farm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helping Tembwe put a stop to his children\u2019s hunger wasn\u2019t just about the food. It was about reclaiming the futures that had been taken away from them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tembwe es un agricultor de 51 a\u00f1os que vive en Zambia. Mantiene a su familia de 12 miembros, entre ellos su mujer y ocho hijos propios, adem\u00e1s de dos hu\u00e9rfanos de su difunta hermana.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[785,615,284,589,558,993],"tags":[1134,1147,873,1153,690],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-blog","category-health","category-livelihoods","category-nutrition","category-zambia","tag-farmer-field-schools-ffs","tag-farming","tag-justice-compassion-love","tag-livestock","tag-protection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46797,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/46797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}