Rural Women Find Their Sparkle, Ditch Farm Labour to Reshape Diamond Trade

Ivory Coast: women tap into financial freedom through rubber tree farms

In Ivory Coast, only five percent of women own agricultural land. But this is changing: for many women, owning their own farms of rubber trees has become a way to achieve financial freedom.

Rural women find their sparkle, ditch farm labour to reshape diamond trade

Surat: Seventy-three years ago, Marilyn Monroe immortalised the idea that diamonds are a girl's best friend.In the villages of Gujarat today, women ha.