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.

University of Fort Hare provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has several million hectares of open land in rural areas, not ...

COVID-19 vaccination rates remain low in many African countries, often because providing access to vaccines is difficult in remote areas. A new international research project showed that intervention ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A UK-based charity has installed solar photovoltaic systems in all 9,000 households of a rural village in Malawi, Kasakula. The nonprofit has ...

Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Development Unit and co-ordinator of the Student Women Economic Empowerment Programme (SWEEP), Faculty of Management Sciences, Central University of Technology It is ...

The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid heartland. From dawn to dusk, Abdulmumen, ...