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Eradicating Hunger in a World of Plenty
The world today faces a rather stunning paradox. We produce enough to feed seven billion people, but high prices and other factors have pushed adequate nutrition out of reach for more than one in 10, says Maria Helena Semedo, deputy director general-knowledge at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). (more…)
In Swaziland, Seeds Beat Drought
The overcast sky is a sign that it might rain, and Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from rural Maphungwane in eastern Swaziland, is not …
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The Search for Swaziland’s TB-Infected Mine Workers
For more than a decade after 1992, when Swazi gold miner Benson Maseko, 50, fell ill with chest pains and a nagging cough, he …
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/UPDATE*/Boreholes, Boreholes Everywhere….And Not a Drop to Drink
Every day for the last four years, 52-year-old Tintfombi Msibi has had to walk past the borehole in her village of Ekuphakameni, one of …
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The Struggle to Keep Swaziland’s Primary Schools Free
As the Swazi government struggles to guarantee a no-cost nationwide primary school system, it finds itself sparring against school principals over the question if …
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