Women make up only about 50% of the population and are already tasked with a host of other domestic duties. If women do 60-80% of the work in agriculture, what would the men be doing, especially given ...

A new report from the NGO ActionAid highlights the growing vulnerability of women to gender-based violence. It underscores ...

On International Women’s Day, it is crucial to acknowledge the vital contributions of African women in agribusiness. As highlighted by ...

BACKGROUNDThis paper provides estimates of the contributions of increased women’s education and reduced infant and child mortality to fertility declines in urban and rural areas of countries in ...

The topics we cover include sustainable development, climate action, agriculture, youth voices, women’s empowerment, health, the African Continental Free Trade Area and other regional ...

They've successfully launched their business by combining newly acquired skills in filmmaking and farming, using social media to market their produce online.

Female-owned enterprises are less productive, although their productivity may be underestimated because of constraints on women’s time and imprecise productivity measures. Enterprises owned by young ...

By Jewel N. THOMPSONDespite Africa having one of the highest rates of female entrepreneurship in the world, women-led businesses remain disproportionately smaller, underfunded, and often constrained ...

Indigenous women have been at the forefront of environmental conservation by bringing invaluable ancestral knowledge and practices, and rural women have been leading global and national climate ...