Stories
To survive, at least temporarily, in the Congo between 1996 and 2003, both adults and children took up arms. Many who did not do so voluntarily were forced to participate. War became their means of subsistence. Those who did not fight suffered...
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Linking its farmer members to local, regional and national markets - thereby doing away with the middlemen who profit at the expense of the farmers - is the key to the success of agricultural cooperatives.
The latest report from the FAO on hunger...
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Though the tropical island of Zanzibar, off the Tanzanian coast in the Indian Ocean, is renowned as an island of spices, white beaches and turquoise waters, it is also home to many incredibly poor people who never see the benefits of the floods of...
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