This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Peanuts, or groundnuts, are an important crop in many developing countries. But getting them out of their shell is tiring without a machine. In 2001 ...

Groundnuts rank second to beans in legumes grown in Uganda and shelling them at both household level and for small-scale commercial farmers often requires them to take the products at a nearby ...

Be careful what kinds of promises you make. That's a warning you might get from Jock Brandis, whose life was changed after he promised some African women he'd help them find a better way to shell ...

Hidden beneath the rich soils of Cagayan Valley and Northern Luzon is an industry that is ripe for the picking. Peanuts have become integral to the culture and economy of the Philippines. It’s a taste ...

(CNN)-- It was a woman's raw, bleeding hands that led Jock Brandis to make a promise. In 2002, Brandis was helping a friend repair a water treatment system in a Mali, Africa, village. There, he ...