“What women need is economic independence”
Jan 4, 2012 | Bhan Sahu
In her first blog, Bhan Sahu tells us about rural entrepreneurs in the Indian village of Vihiri, who are taking their futures in their own hands.
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Brazil: women builders construct new lives
Aug 8, 2011 | Ana Aranha
A group of women in Brazil have learned the basics of the building trade, thanks to Lua Nova, a non-profit organisation that helps pregnant women facing high-risk situations such as homelessness, drug addiction and domestic violence.
“Meat and soda – that’s all we want for Christmas”
Dec 23, 2010 | Machrine Birungi
Machrine Birungi offers a tour of the financial problems that are effecting ordinary Ugandans as they prepare for Christmas this year. From the price of soda, meat and vegetables it may be a smaller celebration for many in 2010 as their shillings drop in value on the global market.
A simple vision: to light up Africa
Jul 27, 2010 | Geoffrey Kamadi
A bicycle wheel, an assortment of mirrors and a ball of string seem unlikely components for a piece of cutting edge green technology. But this unwieldy-looking ‘solar concentrator' is the latest product of a renewable energy revolution spreading across Kenya.
From poacher to gamekeeper
Jun 4, 2010 | Eugene Kwibuka
In Rwanda a conservationist realised that the only way to stop poachers would be to offer them an alternative to poaching. So he helped them to become gamekeepers.
The new face of taxi driving in New Delhi
Jun 1, 2010 | Panos London
In New Delhi a small NGO is changing the face of taxi driving by training, and empowering, women to become taxi drivers and chauffeurs.
Stuck between the middleman and the recession
Mar 10, 2010 | Zofeen T. Ebrahim
Zofeen T. Ebrahim talks to women affected by the global recession and talks to those who are trying to improve their conditions by organising home-workers.
Zambia: Farming revolution
Jan 12, 2010 | Arnold Tutu
Zambia is pumping money into the commercial farming sector in the hope of turning around its economy. With overseas investors being invited to run farms on prime agricultural land, can smaller Zambian farmers hope to compete?
Kenya: Taxing times for street hawkers
Nov 25, 2009 | Eric Kadenge
Street hawkers face a daily battle with the authorities to sell their goods on the streets of Nairobi, finding themselves on the wrong side of the law as the Kenyan government tries to bring informal vendors into the mainstream economy.
The land is ours!
Apr 17, 2008 | Panos London
Women farmers have become a dominant force throughout India. Yet, as women in Narsenahalli village are discovering, the slow pace of land and property rights reform has failed to keep up.
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