This year’s World Food Day theme, “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow,” speaks to one of Africa’s biggest opportunities: connecting the people who produce the continent’s food with access to the ...

Small-scale women farmers in Cwebeni, Eastern Cape, South Africa walking back home from their honey farm in a communal forest. Lucas Nowicki/GroundUp It is well documented that women small-scale ...

As an anthropologist, I’ve been engaged in long-term ethnographic research in KwaZulu-Natal since 2007, focusing mostly on rural food systems and food-based livelihoods and before that on health care.

Both women are real, of course, as are many variations in between. But the fact is that many more women could be leading farming businesses and driving economic growth if the barriers they face were ...