Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms
Land pressure and markets are transforming the countryside
To understand the changing economics of the African countryside, talk to Jovelence Kemizano. Her banana garden slopes into a bucolic valley in Bushenyi, western Uganda. It is too small to feed her family. So when planting time comes, she works for wages in another’s field, until she has earned enough to rent an extra plot of her own for the season ahead.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Pastures new”
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