Farmers and breeders set destructive wildfires in Burundi’s wildlife reserves in the summer months, burning thousands of hectares of land.

It is 9 am in downtown Bujumbura — Burundi’s commercial city. Typical of most sub-Saharan African cities, the alleys are already crowded with customers who are haggling noisily over the prices of merchandise. But it is the cacophony of noise from the portable generators sitting in the corners of some shops that seem to be […]

Two years on from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the costs of supplying modern irrigation equipment have soared, compelling small-scale farmers to turn to traditional irrigation techniques to boost the production of their crops within a short timeframe.