by Spotlight on Mozambique: Bringing it to the people
Africa's rural agriculture is built on the back of women, from tilling the land to everything in-between including watering and weeding, African women do it all.
The women of Chibavana, a district of Sofala Province in Mozambique, are some of the hardest working farmers in the region, all year-round, they rise to the fields at dawn and...
We are happy that seeds, fertilizers, and implements are much closer to us now. Whoever thought of this idea was thinking of us women.
Making a show of Tanzania’s breadbasket
How demonstration plots boosted knowledge and use of fertilizer.
In the lush Southern Highlands of Tanzania lies the country’s breadbasket.
Here, maize, potatoes and sunflowers are grown among the rolling hills and verdant valleys.
This is why Elly Hongoli decided to start up Mkombozi Agribusiness Enterprises, a hub agrodealer, in the Njombe region in Tanzania.
Banking on farming
Creative financing helped an hub-agrodealer’s business increase dramatically.
Rose Joseph Assenga (Mama Assenga as she is fondly called) had been a banker for 12 years before she started her own business in the Moshi district of Tanzania, on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. “When I left the bank, I started wondering what business...
