Go to any market in Accra on a weekday morning. Watch a woman arrange her tomatoes into neat little piles, pricing each one carefully. Ask her why tomatoes cost so much, and she will probably wave her hand in a general direction towards the farms, towards a road you have never driven on and probably […]
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In a vast field, rows of vibrant green tobacco plants reached toward the bush, marking a remarkable recovery of the crop in Zimbabwe, primarily driven by smallholders working under contracts with Chinese companies. Zimbabwe’s tobacco production is rising to all-time highs as farmers seek more resilient, lucrative crops. However, contract farming, frequently for Chinese companies,
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Fifteen years ago, 37-year-old Michel Tama Sadiakhou’s life took a big turn thanks to a group of spear-wielding chimpanzees. Instead of facing the life-threatening conditions of informal gold mining, a common fate for many in southeastern Senegal, he now dedicates his efforts to studying these rare primates. He is one of five residents of nearby
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