Insights Spring 2016: Women in West Africa say “We are the Solution!”
A new colonization is afoot in Africa. It’s a violent usurpation of lands and livelihoods, being perpetrated under the guise of agricultural development….Yet the people of these nations know otherwise – that industrial agriculture intensifies local hunger, depletes the soil and steals land from small farmers. That’s why they stand firm to advance sustainable farming practices like agroecology.