{"id":50,"date":"2017-04-06T00:06:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/tanzania-beans\/?post_type=project&#038;p=50"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:00:02","slug":"joanne-koola-scaling-up","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/tanzania-beans\/project\/joanne-koola-scaling-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Koola: Scaling up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;Section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221; background_image=&#8221;http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/tanzania-beans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/KoolaEdit1.jpg&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; inner_shadow=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_header admin_label=&#8221;Fullwidth Header&#8221; title=&#8221;Joanne Koola: Scaling up&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; header_fullscreen=&#8221;off&#8221; header_scroll_down=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; content_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; image_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; title_text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; custom_button_one=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_letter_spacing=&#8221;0&#8243; button_one_use_icon=&#8221;default&#8221; button_one_icon_placement=&#8221;right&#8221; button_one_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; button_one_letter_spacing_hover=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_button_two=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_letter_spacing=&#8221;0&#8243; button_two_use_icon=&#8221;default&#8221; button_two_icon_placement=&#8221;right&#8221; button_two_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; button_two_letter_spacing_hover=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css_main_element=&#8221;height: 100vh;||&#8221; title_font=&#8221;Lato|on|||&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;54px&#8221; custom_css_header_container=&#8221;top: 400px;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;Section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #b2c8a2\">Joanne Koola started growing improved bean varieties five years ago. She has scaled up \u2014 literally and figuratively \u2014 three times improving her house, and raising herself out of poverty and food insecurity. She\u00a0is the perfect example of the difference a few beans can make in the life of a subsistence farmer.<\/span><\/h4>\n<hr width=\"200px\" \/>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Joanne Koola lives in a gray cement house, the nicest in her rural Tanzanian village. She paid for it with beans.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly halfway between Cairo and Cape Town, Arusha is a city in northern Tanzania with a population of around 400,000 people. It is the closest big city for Koola, who lives two hours away, at the end of a long, dirt road, in the middle of her field, surrounded by beans and goats.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t always live in a cement house. She used to live in a shoddily-constructed circular hut, made of hand-gathered sticks for structure, mud for walls, and topped with thin, jagged sheets of metal.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 2012, an outreach worker from the Pan-African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) approached her, and offered to sell her better-quality products and teach her improved farming practices. PABRA does research on beans in an effort to improve varieties, make them more resistant to climate change, and healthier for human consumption. The goal is to sell a better product to farmers, so that they can make more money, and raise themselves out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Koola was hesitant. Her husband had recently died, leaving her with no children and no income, just a hectare of land to farm. Swayed by PABRA\u2019s promises of finance and food security, she agreed to devote half her land to testing its products \u2014\u00a0bean varieties, fertilizers, and agronomic practices. Within six months, her yield more than doubled and she could afford to upgrade her house.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Koola moved into a rectangular structure made with planks of wood, and for the first time in her life, she had a house with a door.<\/p>\n<p>Koola is the perfect example of the difference a few beans can make in the life of a subsistence farmer.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;Section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_gallery admin_label=&#8221;Gallery&#8221; gallery_ids=&#8221;51,52,53,45&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; orientation=&#8221;landscape&#8221; show_title_and_caption=&#8221;on&#8221; show_pagination=&#8221;on&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; auto=&#8221;on&#8221; hover_overlay_color=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.9)&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;Section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The farming industry in Tanzania employs approximately 80 per cent of the country\u2019s workforce, and about 90 per cent of farmers are smallholder subsistence farmers. Agriculture exports make up more than a quarter of Tanzania\u2019s GDP, but many farm owners cannot afford to feed their families because they\u2019re at the mercy of climate and market volatility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">PABRA, which is partially funded by the Canadian government, is one of the dozens of organizations and projects in Tanzania which seek to alleviate poverty and food insecurity with bean research and development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Although its ranking varies slightly from year to year, Tanzania has consistently been among the top five recipient countries of Canadian foreign aid since it became a \u201ccountry of focus\u201d in 2009. And Canada has contributed more than $1-billion to Tanzania since its independence in 1961. Canada has been helping to fund PABRA for more than a decade, but the most recent project expired in January 2015, and PABRA is hoping to renew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Koola said she was the first person in her village to work with the organization, and in the five years since she\u2019s been doing so, has made sure to follow its instructions exactly for best results. She\u2019s dug a small trench along the outskirts of her field to retain water in the event of insufficient rainfall. She\u2019s been meticulous with her planting and fertilizing schedule. She\u2019s been sure to always keep beans for her own consumption before selling them at the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 2014, again she upgraded her house. Her wooden house became the shelter for her goats, and she moved into a three-room structure made out of clay bricks with a concrete floor. For the first time, she had something other than dirt under her feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Koola shared the wealth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">With her farm earnings, she purchased more land, and began a farming co-op for orphaned children in her village. Now, the 30 or so children maintain small plots of Koola\u2019s land, and on them, she teaches them how to farm effectively. She donates the seeds, fertilizer, and the expertise she learned from PABRA, and the children, who range in age from 7\u201314, learn a skill and keep the profit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The majority of subsistence farmers in Tanzania grow mostly maize with a small amount of beans, because the beans remain a staple food and can make them more money. PABRA and other organizations are trying to make bean farming easier because beans are healthier than maize and improve household incomes.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_code admin_label=&#8221;Code&#8221;]&lt;iframe src=&quot;https:\/\/magic.piktochart.com\/embed\/21569417-pabra&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;[\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Koola grows PABRA\u2019s Jesca variety, which matures early for maximum yield, and is fortified with zinc and iron for better health. She said she knows maize is not enough, and she needs beans to feel \u201cfull and comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that she\u2019s felt a very real change in climate in the last 20 years; the rain comes less frequently, and doesn\u2019t stay as long, she said. For that reason, the climate resilience of PABRA beans has allowed her to rely on at least a small yield on which she can sustain herself.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the half-decade that Koola has been seeing the results of better technologies, her neighbours remain hesitant to invest in the changes. For the typical farmer who owns one\u2013three acres of land, the cost of switching over to a new bean variety, plus paying for the inputs like fertilizer and manure, as well as the adjustment to new agronomic practices, is too high.<\/p>\n<p>Koola, who said she has plenty of beans for her own consumption, is sick of her neighbours \u201cbegging around\u201d for food and money when the technology and education are available to them. She said others in her village have tried to branch out from agriculture to other sources of income, but they cannot support themselves, and consequently neglect their farms.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2016, Koola upgraded her house once more. The clay brick house now contains only her kitchen, and she\u2019s moved into the cement house \u2014\u00a0the one that\u2019s the nicest in her village. She can afford the luxury of aesthetic choices. She\u2019s painted her walls. 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