After spending seven years in Spain, Issa went back to live in his village in Senegal. He told InfoMigrants that many people who are headed to Europe underestimate how hard life can be for migrants.
Humus is a service that wants to make farm work more sustainable and ethical in the Cuneo region in Italy. It allows different agriculture businesses to "share" workers. The goal is to provide year-round employment to workers, while firms only hire them seasonally.
The project "Dolcetto" for cooperation in development in Togo aims to provide work opportunities to cultivate organic pineapples in Togo in the hope of averting migration to Europe in the search of work abroad.
Angela Merkel's government has declared Africa a policy focus and Germany's presence on the continent has expanded significantly. However, aid organizations say in a new report that the country has the wrong priorities.
Jeffery, a Nigerian who escaped Boko Haram in 2015 and came to Italy, has opened a rural museum in Italy along with a teaching farm. His enterprise won the Green Oscar from Coldiretti, an agricultural union in Italy, in 2018.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization says that migrants can be agents of development, contributing to economic growth and improving food security and rural livelihoods.
Approximately 10 percent of farm laborers are foreign and Italians are less inclined to take up agricultural work, according to the Confederation of Italian Farmers (CIA). The organization is working to combat exploitation.
The Food and Agriculture Organization and International Organisation for Migration have signed a new memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation.
In Italy, a fair trade project launched by one of the country's most important lyricists, Mogol, aims to produce organic crops in Africa to give jobs and futures in migrant countries of origin.
Refugees in northwestern Kenya have found a way to create income by selling produce from their own patches of land. The plots are allotted as part of a social and economic development project funded by the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.