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Vegetable
Business
- a Way Out of
Poverty

A simple skill introduced to help rural women to grow vegetable is proving to be a powerful tool in fighting poverty in Pemba district, a remote region about 300 kilometres south of the Zambian capital Lusaka.

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Women Sow
Food Security

 

The women who grow rice in Pematang Jering, a village in the northern Indonesian province of Sumatra, follow a simple creed when they work the fields:''If we feed the land well, the land will feed us well.''

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From Vacant Lots to City Gardens

Urban farming in Cuba is booming, promoted by the government with the support of United Nations agencies and other international institutions to provide city residents with fresh, organic produce and to create a new source of jobs.
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• Kenyan Dairy Farmers Floundering
  
  
• Rice Woes Pushing Indonesian Economy to Food Crisis
  
  
• Caribbean Eyes Organic Food Markets
  
  
• Environmental Researchers Highlight Overgrazing
  
  
• African Farmers Seek Help on Biotechnology
  
  
• Vegetable Business -a Way Out of Poverty
  
  
• Schools without Walls Offer Skills to Farmers
  
  
• Indian Traders Make a Killing, as People Starve
  
  
• Global Downturn Means More Hungry People
  
  
• Thousands of Central American Children Could Die of Hunger
  
  
• Media: Creating Awareness, not Panic
  
  
• Cuba: From Vacant Lots to City Gardens
  
  
• Women Sow Food Security

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