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Mashambas Skyscraper in Manyoni
Tower in Tanzania – design by Ggrupa, architects
3 May 2017
Mashambas Skyscraper
Architects: Ggrupa
Location: Manyoni, Tanzania
Mashambas Skyscraper

An area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.

Over the last 30 years, worldwide absolute poverty has fallen sharply (from about 40% to under 20%). But in African countries, the percentage has barely fallen. Still today, over 40% of people living in sub-Saharan Africa live in absolute poverty. More than half of them have something in common: they’re small farmers.
Despite several attempts, the green revolution?s mix of fertilizers, irrigation, and high-yield seeds?which more than doubled global grain production between 1960 and 2000?never blossomed in Africa, thanks to the poor infrastructure, limited markets, weak governance, and fratricidal civil wars that wracked the postcolonial continent.

The goal of the project is to bring this green revolution to the poorest people. Giving training, fertilizer, and seeds to the small farmers can give them an opportunity to produce as much per acre as huge modern farms. When farmers improve their harvests, they pull themselves out of poverty. They also start producing surplus food for their neighbors. When farmers prosper, they eradicate pov...