Azieb Poultry: A Time-tested Private Firm that will Further Prosper

BY RANDA OSMAN | SHABAIT “The journey to success is like a wall that must be climbed in a step by step manner with patience and persistence.” These are the words of an initially desperate housewife who sold chicken in her neighbourhood to make ends meet and has decades later grown to be one of […]

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From Two Cows to Industrial Farming, the Journey of a Woman Entrepreneur

BY MELA GHEBREMEDHIN | SHABAIT Women are often the main food producers in agriculture-related activities especially in the ‘Global South’. Research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through participatory rural appraisal (PRA) shows that in Eritrea, women work on average more than 15 hours a day during the cropping season […]

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