A white South African farmer and two of his workers were in court Friday accused of murdering two black women and feeding their remains to pigs, shocking the country. Zachariah Olivier, 60, and ...
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Women farmers’ key role in sustainable farming

If you walk through almost any market in Kenya on a weekday morning, you will see who is feeding this country. Women arranging dry beans and maize before sunrise, loading sukuma wiki onto handcarts, ...
This article was co-published with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, policy and power. On a sunny morning in June, about two dozen people walk the land of Soul Fire Farm in ...
Women farmers in Liberia are calling on the government and development partners to increase investment in agriculture, arguing that stronger support for local food production is critical to reducing ...
Storms, drought, floods and heatwaves are a disaster for small scale farmers in Africa, who can’t all afford insurance. Yet new, technologically advanced and cheaper types of agricultural insurance ...
Women are an important and often underutilised human resource in Africa. They’ve faced many problems historically. Limited access to land, finance, education and decision-making platforms have meant ...
World Food Prize Foundation President Mashal Husain says Africa’s future must be shaped by African solutions. Speaking at a ...