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Systemic poverty in Cameroon, Peru illustrates the complex barrier poor people face

Posted April 28th, 2021

The 85 or so Presbyterians studying the underpinnings of systemic poverty zoomed out to take in a more global perspective recently, thanks to presentations by Valéry Nodem and the Rev. Jed Koball.

Trade and tariff systems prevent cocoa processing in West Africa

Posted June 16th, 2020

In the backyard of my house in Accra, Ghana, there are plantain, papaya and mango trees, each giving fruit at their particular times of the year. I’m excited as the dry season ends — the beginning of spring in the U.S. — when our avocados ripen and become ready to eat!