Mutualism and intercropping
Mutualism is the process whereby two or more crops or other kinds of plants provide benefits to one another, and […]
Swaziland: Farmers boost income with Katambora grass
Charity Gceba is a 41-year-old farmer from Lapa village, in the Manzini district of central Swaziland. In 2013, she started […]
Kenya: Women earn healthy profit by exporting aloe (Trust)
Three hundred women in the village of El Poloi have broken with tradition. The women herders have swapped their goats […]
Uganda: Teenager brightens her siblings’ lives with sunflowers
After his wife died, Dorcus Ayiko’s father remarried. Then he began caring less for his three children. Ms. Ayiko’s new […]
Namibia: Women make a living selling dried grasses and lucerne
Every day, Lovisa Nelago Shalihu takes shelter from the hot sun and waits eagerly for customers. The forty-five-year-old woman sits […]