Stories tagged: urban agriculture

Rwanda: Women seek to boost innovation and creativity in agribusiness (IPS News)

admin | September 15, 2023

Adeline Umukunzi is a 28-year-old Rwandan mushroom farmer in Musanze, a district about 100 kilometres north of the capital, Kigali. […]

Johanna Absalom | July 8, 2019

It’s break time and 12-year-old Sylvia Amaambo walks towards the school garden. She squats near a bed of water in […]

Aimee Ngnemzue | June 9, 2019

Rama Ndaw slowly climbs the stairs to the terrace of her family home. She gently pushes aside feed bags piled […]

Dinna Maningo | October 7, 2018

Naom Mgeta and her fellow students are holding three-litre water jugs in their hands. The blue-and-white-clad students are watering vegetables […]

admin | October 7, 2018

Like one of this week’s Farmer stories from Tanzania, our Script of the week is about growing vegetables in bags, […]

Michael Tchokpodo | January 29, 2018

Twilight approaches. Mahoussi Kélè drags a bag of bird droppings to the garden. His eyes fixed on the ground, the […]

Zanem Nety Zaidi | November 20, 2017

At 6:30 in the morning, Marceline Zaninga is already hard at work in her field, which is dotted with green […]

Aimee Ngnemzue | October 30, 2017

Rama Ndaw slowly climbs the stairs to the terrace of her family home. She gently pushes aside feed bags piled […]

admin | September 18, 2017

Wearing a faded green shirt and blue cap, Charles Acapko leans over to weed his rows of lettuce. The vegetable […]

Aimee Ngnemzue | March 13, 2017

Wearing a cap, green blouse, and transparent goggles, Coumba Diop has the air of a scientific expert preoccupied with work […]