Bridget Bwalya grew up in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province in a family of six. Her parents worked in the copper mines and had a farm where they grew maize and sweet potato for subsistence. “I wondered why they farmed because they were not making any profit,” says Bwalya. Further, their rural relatives would often bring them food to augment what they grew on the farm. This made Bwalya question their persistence in pursuing farming with little return. “I refused to accept the standard explanation that we farm because we grow food to eat,” she explains.