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(Photo: Sophie Clayton) Burundi is a small landlocked country in Central Africa.Longstanding tribal conflicts in the country broke out into a civil war in 1993 that lasted 12 years and resulted in more than 200,000 deaths. In 2006, a year after the conflict ended, a horrendous 83% of Burundians were found...

A Farmer’s wife carrying a tin-can storage for clean seeds. (Photo: Thelma Paris) “Yes!” was the answer of women participants in a leadership...

In many developing countries, women are the primary managers and users of natural resources. Poor rural women play important roles in rice-based farming...