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7 July 2017
While over 20% of Americans now shop for groceries online, in most of sub-Saharan Africa, the average household still buys...
20 July 2017
Biniyam Tesfaye was working as an electrical power engineer in Addis Ababa in 2014 when he came upon a colleague one day weeping...
21 July 2017
If you drive west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the soil turns into a deep russet red, and the terrain unfurls, undulating into...
7 August 2017
High up in the Himalayas, where yak have roamed the mountainsides for centuries, generation after generation of Nepalese have...
16 August 2017
On a windy rooftop in Casablanca, Morocco, Karim El Alami smiles as he looks out over the city. For years, Karim has dreamt of...
24 August 2017
Farming is a tough business. Growing up on a rural Kenyan farm, Samuel Rigu saw firsthand how the acidity of the expensive,...
6 September 2017
Companies like Hershey’s – one of the world’s largest chocolate producers – face several challenges when working with smallholder...
13 September 2017
Climate change could have a significant impact on Ghana’s economy. Coastal erosion from rising sea levels could result in...
5 October 2017
Prakash Maharjan’s family had been selling ice cream for over four decades, but unhappy with doing “business as usual,” he had...
19 October 2017
Those of us who live in cities often have a romanticized idea of life as a farmer. We imagine clean living, healthy eating, and...