(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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...