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 ...

Rural women form the backbone of the agricultural labour force across much of the developing world. Globally, more than a third of the female workforce is engaged in agriculture, while in regions like ...

Angola, Burundi, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

With the celebration of Farmers’ Day last week we reflect on the extraordinary contributions of the people who feed our homes, sustain our markets, and anchor our economies ...

The idea that rural Africans are self-sufficient subsistence farmers who grow what they eat and eat what they grow was only ever partly true. But it is becoming less relevant with each passing year.

Fertility rates in much of Sub-Saharan Africa remain high, despite declining child mortality and improved access to contraceptives and ...

Across Africa, agriculture contributes 32% to Africa’s GDP and employs 65% of the labour force on the con tinent, according to the World Bank. That notwithstanding, the people who drive the sector, ...

South Africa opposed a UN agritech resolution, defying economic interestsRejection blocks access to irrigation, climate-smart farming, and rural aidV ...