The idea that rural Africans are self-sufficient subsistence farmers who grow what they eat and eat what they grow was only ever partly true. But it is becoming less relevant with each passing year.

The lanky young man in skinny joggers grew up in the town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but after completing school in ...

Interns funded by a UC-HBCU grant learned key professional skills and found their calling while excavating an archaeological ...

Across Africa, agriculture contributes 32% to Africa rsquo;s GDP and employs 65% of the labour force on the con tinent, ...

Deep in the rural foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains lies Loskop, KwaZulu-Natal – a village that has quietly become the ...

COVID-19 vaccination rates remain low in many African countries, often because providing access to vaccines is difficult in remote areas. A new international research project showed that intervention ...

In a small, rural village in Zambia, Ruth earns an income by collecting fresh vegetables from local community gardens and bringing them to market. Tending and collecting the vegetables by foot is time ...

SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

Johannesburg, South Africa — A tiny village in South Africa has been overrun by thousands of people searching for diamonds. The crowds poured in after a man reported finding a crystal-like stone in a ...

MILFORD >> A non-profit organization that brings much-needed water to villages in Africa and is run by a Milford couple, has completed the second phase of their most recent water project in Uganda and ...

The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid heartland. From dawn to dusk, Abdulmumen, ...

Malaria has become more common in African villages with irrigated rice fields in the last 20 years, highlighting the need for improved cultivation methods to keep mosquito numbers low, a study ...