Cyclone Idai survivor Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister Luisa, 6 – both enveloped by plastic sheeting in Buzi, Mozambique.Photo: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty

Mozambique: ‘I will not pay’

Mozambican campaigners call for debt cancellation.

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Family farms have brought production levels back up to the 1990s average, when white farmers were still in charge. They now make up one of the most dynamic sectors of the economy. From top to bottom: tying tobacco, shelling maize and taking a break. 
Joseph Hanlon

The eye of the farmer fattens the beast

Can smallholders be more productive than agribusiness? It looks that way in Zimbabwe, which has broken up its big farms, and where growers have nearly matched production of their white predecessors, in fewer than ten years. Joseph Hanlon reports.

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Hanging together

Strategies for social cohesion

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