Fighting Poverty from Space

What if the first world trained its eyes on developing nations? Daily monitoring from satellites in orbit overhead is a reality today, and the pictures are becoming just as clear of the fields in Zambia or los campos de El Salvador as they are of the home where I grew up in the US.  As [...]

Gender Roles in Rural Zambia

This past week I spent observing farmer field school trainings in the town of Choma. On the last day the facilitator conducted an exercise on gender differences on farms. Two of the four groups drew pie charts of an average male and female day; what activities they performed at each hour during the day. The [...]