It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of ...

SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

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.

Extreme poverty remains a major challenge across parts of Africa, with new data showing that millions continue to live on ...

ZVIMBA, Zimbabwe — For Pelagia Bvukura, who lives in a rural part of north-central Zimbabwe, COVID-19 had always been a “city disease,” affecting those in the capital, Harare, or other, distant big ...

Minister of Human Settlements, Thembisile Simelane, has shed light on the devastating impact of poverty, gender-based ...

The call this year is clear: bold action is needed to advance equality, safeguard rights, and ensure that rural women and ...

The Honey Palace Africa Limited, in collaboration with the GIZ, a German federal enterprise, has launched its flagship project dubbed "Women in Apiculture" at Navrongo, capital of the Kassena-Nankana ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

On this International Day of Rural Women, we call for bold action to advance the equality, rights, and empowerment of women and girls living in rural settings. Every day, they feed communities, ...

They held hands and their chants of “it's so nice to be here” echoed through the tent before they set about discussing ...