Field Notes 

Follow the team in the field for behind the scenes stories, pictures and video.

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A Nonprofits Business Approach to Helping Farmers

04/04/12 | by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

Most international aid agencies are headquartered in major cities: New York, Geneva or Nairobi. But One Acre Fund chose a rural location in the Kenyan town of Bungoma.

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Lyn Lusi, Co-Founder of HEAL Africa, Passes Away at 62

03/19/12 | by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

The passing of Lyn Lusi, co-founder of HEAL Africa in Goma, DR Congo, leave a war-torn community grieving a woman who touched thousands of lives with hope and healing.

wheat plant infected with UG99

Testing Hybrids and Tossing Sandals

01/02/12 | by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

A big threat to the global wheat crop.

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Somali Refugees Seek "New Normal"

11/14/11 | by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

The Hilaweyn refugee camp was set up just a few weeks ago and it already looks like any other dusty small town anywhere in rural Africa.

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Brazil's Shifting Views of Church, Abortion and Lifestyle

08/31/11 | by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

Brazil's plummeting birth rate would seem like a triumph for the country's women's movement.

Fred de Sam Lazaro

Brazil's Shifting Views of Church, Abortion and Lifestyle

08/31/11 | by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

Brazil's plummeting birth rate would seem like a triumph for the country's women's movement.

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First Known Food Processor, with Clapping

06/14/11 | by Nicole See, Producer/Editor

A woman in rural Senegal showed us how she makes work fun.

Fred de Sam Lazaro is interviewed on the radio.

Fred is interviewed (and dances) on Ghana public radio.

06/10/11 | by Nicole See, Producer/Editor

Fred de Sam Lazaro in interviewed by Ghana public radio while we are there filming for a PBS NewsHour report.

PBS crew, Fred de Sam Lazaro, Tom Adair, Nicole See

Village in Senegal Welcomes PBS Crew

06/09/11 | by Nicole See, Producer/Editor

The PBS crew was welcomed to a village in rural Senegal.

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Small Enterprises Take Root in Ghana

06/02/11 | by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

Ghana is an oasis of nervous prosperity.