'Women farmers are invisible': A West African project helps them claim their rights -- and land : vimarsana.com

Mariama Sonko's voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit.

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