Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The South African government makes a great deal of the fact that it supports women’s empowerment in agriculture. But does it? As ...

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 ...

More Than a Cup enterprise is helping marginalized female coffee growers across Africa, Asia, and Latin America strengthen ...

Once excluded from formal markets due to limited training, technology and financial literacy, 25 women farmers from South Africa's Mpumalanga province are now supplying major retailers, school feeding ...

OCP Group has put a strong spotlight on the role of women in transforming Africa’s food systems during a high-level that took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

They emphasized that women farmers are already leading enterprises, producer associations and financial cooperatives, and that sustained investment in their leadership is essential to building ...

I once lived in a shed. When I started farming a dozen years ago, I didn’t have a proper home. I didn’t own any real agriculture equipment. There was no electricity. My access to the internet was ...

Elizabeth Hull received funding from The London Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH). As an anthropologist, I’ve been engaged in long-term ethnographic research in ...