In Spain's rural areas, sheep farms are having a hard time finding employees willing to herd the animals. To fill that gap and also find work for recent migrants, a government program is training ...

(Bloomberg) -- For over four decades, Maria Jose Nestares’ family has quietly run a vineyard in the Spanish northern region of La Rioja, one of Europe’s largest wine-producing areas. But about four ...

A government program in Spain is training migrants as shepherds to tackle rural depopulation and job shortages. Osam Abdulmumen, a 25-year-old migrant from Sudan, is among those learning the trade. He ...

LOS CORTIJOS, Spain (AP) — The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid heartland.

RONDA, Spain, July 19 (Reuters) - In the parched countryside of southern Spain, just an hour's drive inland from the resorts of Marbella, Manuel Montesinos' flock of sheep grazes on what dry grass it ...

Driving through Castilla y León in the northwest of Spain can create the impression of being alone in the world. The landscape is a continuous scroll of wheat fields, dry grasslands and expanses of ...