It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her ...

African farmers face rising climate disasters that destroy crops and livestock. The G20 must champion new, affordable tech-based insurance for them.

By Conrad Onyango,** Women across Africa are fast taking up space in processing, packaging, distribution and food service businesses, Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | ...

Despite sustaining the continent’s food systems, women remain largely invisible in the formal agri-food economy ...

JOHANNESBURG — Three men in South Africa are accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs on their farm in a case that has outraged the public. The men appeared in court Tuesday in ...

Mariama Sonko and other members of the “Nous Sommes la Solution” (We Are the Solution) movement take a census of the different varieties of rice March 7 in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal.

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her ...

Mariama Sonko's voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the ...