Cameroon: Woman farmer goes from planting local seed to having lasting impact (Alliance Bioversity & CIAT)
Angel Tadie began her farming journey with local seeds bought from the market. When she began farming, she could get […]
Celebrate the International Year of Women Farmers
Women play essential roles in their families and communities, nurturing, caring, and feeding children, husbands, parents, siblings, and neighbours. Women […]
Burkina Faso: Practicing permaculture to preserve biodiversity
This story was originally published in October 2024. During the rainy season in Dodougou, a village about 30 km from […]
Zambia: Farmers transforming their community with integrated farming
For many years, farmers in the Naolo district of Western Province, Zambia, relied heavily on chemical fertilizer and intensive tillage. […]
Kenya: Investing in irrigation to increase income from vegetables (IFC and SciDev.Net)
Fifty years ago, Kavuru village, in Kenya’s Embu County, was mostly dry grassland. Kinaro Waithaka purchased a 10-acre plot here […]
Malawi: Farmers rebuild soil and livelihoods through agroecology (Mongabay)
Grena Banda and her husband, Daniel Mwafulirwa, spent years struggling to make ends meet on their small farm in Rumphi […]
Zambia: Agroecology takes root among smallholder farmers (IPS)
In Nkhondola, a small village in Chongwe District, Eastern Zambia, Royd Michelo and his wife, Adasila Kanyanga, have transformed their […]
Nigeria: Gbajimgba farmers adopt drought-resistant varieties to mitigate the effects of climate change on crop production
It’s about 6:30 a.m. in Uosuh 1, a community a few kilometres from Gbajimgba in Guma Local Government Area of […]
Kenya: Permaculture promises peace, food and equality (Mongabay)
Under the scorching midday sun, Salina Chepsat loads crates of ripe tomatoes into a vehicle bound for Marigat market, 30 […]
Benin: Building resilience through farming (Mongabay)
In the village of Ouèdo Ahouanssodja, about 40 kilometres from Cotonou, a group of young farmers is building a future […]