Women Farmers in Africa Call for More Support

Analysts estimate women farmers produce about 90 percent of the food in Africa.  The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization adds that two-thirds of African women find jobs in agriculture. Leaders of organizations that advocate on behalf of African women farmers met here to develop ways of making agriculture more profitable for them.   In Santa, in north-west Cameroon, Adamu Maino is busy raising his cows on a piece of family land he seized from his sister, Maimonatou Aisha, in...

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