Reporting on Women & Agriculture Updates

A four-year, $2.5 million IWMF program has transformed the reporting of agriculture and rural development in Africa and given voice to rural women far...

At IWMF's Reporting on Agriculture and Women program, Christine Lanyero and Assa Sakiliba talk at a meeting in Mali. A four-year IWMF project to t...

Molly Mukasa supplements her family’s earnings in Uganda in a way some may deem unlikely: She raises pigs.

“While several women in the trading centre burden their husbands for resources, to me, money is not a concern anymore,” Mukasa told Joseph Miti, a journalist for Uganda’s The Daily Monitor, who reported this story.

Miti’s story on Mukasa and other women pig farmers came out of the International Women’s Media Foundation initiative, Reporting on Women and Agriculture: Africa. The IWMF has partnered with The Daily Monitor for the project, which trains journalists in effectively covering agriculture and the role of women within agriculture and rural development.

Miti shared with the IWMF how he found the story about women pig farmers.

• Read the Q & A.
• See Joseph Miti's Daily Monitor article.

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Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa in Mali, Uganda and Zambia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 6, 2007 For more information:Lindsey Wray(202) 496-1992LWray@iwmf.org Grant from Howard G. Buffett Foun...