A field in the central highland region of Madagascar is hardly a conventional classroom, but the students working up to their knees in rice plants are learning valuable lessons about sustainable agriculture – lessons they will pass on to local farmers. As an old Malagasy proverb says, ‘education is the most beautiful heritage’.

Around 2 000 students from 12 Collège d'Enseignement Général (CEG) schools in Vakinankaratra province have benefited from a climate-smart agriculture project by the EU-funded Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+).

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