On December 4, Secretary of State John Kerry made a brief trip to Moldova, during which he visited a local winery and spoke about the country’s economic future. After talks with top officials from the Moldovan government, Kerry stopped by the Cricova Wine Cellar, where he participated in the launch of a new national wine…
Maimuna Abdullahi was accustomed to cultivating rice only during the wet season, when frequent rains and low temperatures create an ideal climate for the crop. Like most Nigerian rice farmers, this mother and rice farmer of seven years thought that tending her paddies in the dry season, under the rainless harmattan (a dry, dusty air…
Over the course of three days in late September, professionals from all over the world convened in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the 11th annual International Society for Performance Improvement – Europe, Middle East and Asia (ISPI EMEA) Conference. The theme for this year’s conference was “Improving performance in emerging markets” and the agenda included performance improvement…
On a sunny spring day in May 2013, thousands of Georgians converged in Zugdidi, a city in western Georgia, for a landmark event. They came from all over the country to taste strawberries in every form imaginable — as juice, cake, cookies, and by the basketful. In addition to indulging in delicious food, the 5,000…
Like many countries in West Africa, Nigeria faces the dual challenges of poverty and food insecurity. Not content to let their families fall into these traps, women in Nigeria are taking charge to pull their families out of poverty and are investing in their family’s health through best nutrition practices. Before her husband’s death, Hajia…
When Amra Ugarak started cultivating the underused land plot that had been in her husband’s family for years, she had no idea that she would become one of the most productive raspberry farmers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, producing 5.5 tons of raspberries on 0.2 hectares in one year. “I was not a farmer, I was…