“However much we preach about the AfCFTA, if those informal cross-border women cannot get their goods from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Lusaka in Zambia then there is no real cross-border trade.”

One (accidental and positive) effect of the economic crisis has been that it has led to new intergenerational relations. Young and old help and support each other in the framework of intergenerational living programmes.

Beyond all the hype about Armenia being ‘the Silicon Valley of the South Caucasus’, it remains a country plagued by inequality.

Former fishing villages are transforming themselves into seaweed nurseries in response to growing global demand for the raw material.

A movement in favour of food sovereignty and agroecological practices is gathering momentum. And the role of women, who identify the agribusiness model with the patriarchal system and are insisting on the need to include a gender perspective in agroecology, is [...]

Renewable energy companies are repeating the same business practices for which the fossil fuel industry has been criticized – practices that are very far from being clean.