The women of Thiamene, a tiny straw hut village in northern Senegal, used to scrape together a living by collecting wild baobab fruit and selling milk from their cows. But their earnings have plummeted since an Italian-Senegalese agribusiness, Senhuile, took over the surrounding land five years ago, blocking their paths to the local market and
Women lead battle to save Senegal’s shrinking farmland
Female-led work is vital to rural communities in Senegal — now women are organizing to lead the fight against multinational agribusiness
