A neglected and ancient trade in Spain gets a boost from African migrants

The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a ...

The new shepherds of Spain: African migrants take up a neglected rural trade

A government program in Spain is training African migrants as shepherds to tackle rural depopulation and job shortages ...
Africanews on MSN

In Spain, migrants are saving sheep farms by taking over shepherding

In Spain's rural areas, sheep farms are having a hard time finding employees willing to herd the animals. To fill that gap ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Camino pilgrims help rural Spain’s emptying villages survive

TERRADILLOS DE LOS TEMPLARIOS, Spain -- Amid the vast grain fields of Spain, a medieval church stands guard over the handful of adobe homes where some 50 people live -- and twice as many travelers ...
Monocle

The villages of Spain’s fast-emptying rural heartlands have plenty to teach us

This week I’ve been travelling around Aragón in northeastern Spain, visiting some of the people I wrote about in Monocle three years ago for a piece about the fight against rural depopulation. This ...
Daily Herald

Camino pilgrims help rural Spain's emptying villages survive

TERRADILLOS DE LOS TEMPLARIOS, Spain (AP) - Amid the vast grain fields of Spain, a medieval church stands guard over the handful of adobe homes where some 50 people live - and twice as many travelers ...