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Small-scale farmers become entrepreneurs
Have you ever wondered where the cabbages, potatoes, tomatoes and green beans sitting on supermarket shelves come from? In Mozambique if you shop at Shoprite, Africa's largest food retailer, which has operations in 16 countries, you'll be buying vegetables produced locally by small-scale farmers.
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Training helps octopus fisher build a better life
Lima Casimir is a 52 year old and a "piqueuse ourite" - an octopus fisher - who lives on the island of Rodrigues 640 kilometres off the island of Mauritius.
Lima's day starts at 5.30 am when she takes her son's boat to go to her breath-taking 'office' - a vast lagoon that opens onto the Indian Ocean. Her office furniture includes a boat and the magnificent coral reefs. To catch the octopus, she uses an iron rod which she wears around her shoulder. The IFAD-funded Rural Diversification Programme trained Lima in how to catch octopus without damaging the coral reefs.
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How a poor islander became a local leader
Maryline Legoff is a rural entrepreneur. She is 35 years old and a single mother with a 5-year-old son. Maryline lives on the island of Rodrigues, 640 kilometers off the island of Mauritius. For Maryline and the 38,000 people who live on Rodrigues, fishing is a way of life. But their livelihoods are threatened by declining fish stocks.
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Moving down from the mountains: a new life in Pa Vi Commune
Two years ago, in 2005, Giang Thi Hoa, 41, and her husband, Li Mi Na, 54, decided to leave their home in the mountains of Meo Vac district, Viet Nam, in search of a better life for themselves and their four children. In the mountains, the family lived in extreme poverty.
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Trading
Futures
A collection of interviews from rural poor people in Bolivia,
Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Laos, Morocco and Peru who describe the
greatest obstacles they face in getting their goods to market.
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Entrepreneurs
wanted
A innovative government program supported by IFAD attempts to
unlock the entrepreneurial spirit in one of the world's poorest
countries.
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Breaking
Down Borders
Nine Latin American entrepreneurs, representing artisans from
poor rural communities, attempt to sell their goods in one of
Europe's toughest fashion capitals.
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Fair
trade in Action - Cocoa farmers in Ghana
Lucy Mansa is a cocoa farmer who makes her living by growing and
selling cocoa beans. She lives in a small village in Ghana called
Fenaso Domeabra.
Most of the cocoa beans grown in Ghana are sent to the UK and
other countries in Europe where they are made into chocolate.
The price farmers receive for their cocoa beans is often very
low and few of them can afford to buy chocolate.
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