Vlog #003 Seeking Transparency | Meet the Dream Team, the Farmer Exploiter and the General

Welcome back to Vlog #003! 

In this Vlog we introduce our very own dream team, a group of agriculture students who join us on our journey. We explain the repressive system keeping farmers poor and we have a chance to sit down with the brother of the president, General Salim Saleh! Next week we go high up the mountains of Kapchorwa, we visit the farmers of some large traders and discuss our take on the three pillars of relieving smallholder poverty. 

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