Oluwayimika Angel Adelaja-Kuye, founder of Fresh Direct Nigeria, poses for a photo at the Seeds & Chips food summit in Milan, Italy, on May 6, 2019.

Tech entrepreneurs seek to shatter stereotypes about women in farming

Women make up nearly half the global workforce in farming, but many say their contribution has long gone unrecognised, particularly in developing countries

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation – When Oluwayimika Angel Adelaja-Kuye started Nigeria’s first vertical farming company she already had years of experience advising governments under her belt — yet as […] Read more



Eric Hakizimana, 27, poses with chickens at his home in eastern Rwanda on August 23, 2018.

Young entrepreneurs lend glamour to African agriculture

Africa has the world’s youngest population and 65 per cent of its uncultivated arable land

Thomson Reuters Foundation – In a long-sleeved shirt and jeans, expertly navigating eastern Rwanda’s bumpy back roads in a white four-wheel drive, Dieudonne Twahirwa looks nothing like the stereotypical African […] Read more