A group of local farmers help a colleague in digging a Zai pit in a farm located in Kyanzavi area, Matungulu Sub County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] On a recent visit to Wote in Makueni County, I was ...

Sometimes innovative thinking means using traditions that work well already in Africa. The Zai technique is an example. Zai is a traditional African planting technique used in Burkina Faso, which ...

OUAHIGOUYA, Burkina Faso – Yacouba Sawadogo murmurs advice to his sons as they press a sapling into the red earth using a centuries-old technique that he has adapted to conjure a forest from Burkina ...

Seydou Walaga shows off his grain silo, which still has food in it more than seven months after harvesting, in Kourmou, the Tillaberi region of western Niger. Sara Passman/USAID Senegal DAKAR, March 8 ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! OUAHIGOUYA, Burkina Faso (Reuters) – Yacouba ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Seydou Walaga, a grey-haired farmer in western Niger, lifts the hatch of his grain silo, a round hut made of sticks and straw, to reveal piles of sorghum and ...