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Meet Shaima – running her own honey business in Afghanistan

Jul

In Afghanistan, the restrictions on women’s movement and their ability to work, combined with natural disasters and the breakdown of the banking system, has pushed…

Meet Evelyn – earning more since changing the way she farms

Jun

Because smallholder farmers, like Evelyn Syombua, produce one third of the world’s food they are also the key components in the global transition towards a…

Meet Veneranda and Wilfred – challenging social norms that hold women back.

May

One in four African women is an entrepreneur, yet women face significant additional barriers when it comes to earning. That’s why Hand in Hand is…

Meet Benedetta – a farmer leading the fightback against climate change.

Apr

With sub–Saharan Africa seeing record droughts and floods and with as much as 30% of the country’s land degraded by intensive monoculture farming and pesticide…

Hand in Hand’s saffron project attains vital ISO certification

Oct

A pioneering initiative to lift saffron farmers in Afghanistan out of poverty has hit a new milestone, with producers involved in the project successfully securing…