Sheila Garakara, Country Manager for Zambia at Solidaridad Tomorrow cannot wait. Someone else won’t do it. If ever there was a time for promoting inclusivity in the agricultural sector with a special focus on women empowerment and youth development – it is now! That’s the crux of the message by Sheila Garakara, Country Manager for ...

The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform will this week award top performing women in the agricultural sector, as part of the department’s programme to recognise the contribution of women in agriculture. The department said the objective of the awards is to empower and honour women in agriculture and agro processing. “The ...

A woman arranges freshly made briquettes at a sanctuary in Kampala, Uganda, May 30, 2024. (Photo by Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua) Every morning, Sheeba Kwagala heads to a sanctuary in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to mash agricultural waste with molasses and clay to make briquettes. As the world marks World Environment Day, a growing number of ...

The State of Israel has expressed readiness to build the capacity of Nigerian women and girls in diverse areas of agriculture, science, technology and capacity building in the area of textile among others. Indications to this development emerged when the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman paid a courtesy visit to the Nigeria’s First Lady, ...

The Gender Climate Change and Agriculture Support Programme (GCCASP) of AUDA-NEPAD is helping in addressing policy and institutional gaps, building skills and capacities, amplifying women’s voices, and scaling innovative Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices. This is to foster a response to the climate change issue. The program is helping to build capacities of female smallholder ...

Opinion by Hannah Ryder/aImage : Patrick Meinhardt/AFP Back in 2018, the year I founded Development Reimagined, I wrote a piece reflecting on how and why African and Chinese women were at the forefront of both academic and private sector activity when it comes to the Africa-China relationship, despite the dominance of African and Chinese men ...

For Africa, a continent where the dream of feeding herself was elusive even before climate change, the future of agriculture is rather uncertain. “There’s a need for Africa to rethink her approach to agriculture,” Ambassador Gurjit Singh, Intellecap board chair, said recently during the 11th Sankalp Africa Summit 2024 held in Nairobi, Kenya. He added that for African agriculture, ...

Women are reported to make up around 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force globally. Their role in small-scale farming systems and the barriers they face in achieving equitable access to inputs are often highlighted. However, this strong focus on women as labourers or auxiliary workers masks the wider contribution of women to agriculture over time in Australia and globally. The ...

Since her husband fled to South Africa nearly two years ago, Banele Ncube, 37, has been taking care of their three children alone. Like Elizabeth, whose land is opposite, she depends on the new irrigation scheme. Banele notes, “Before the irrigation scheme was installed, our major challenge was lack of water. I would wake up ...

The agricultural sector stands as a significant contributor to Africa’s economic development, impacting the livelihoods of approximately 60% of the continent’s population. Within the Ghanaian agricultural ecosystem, women emerge as the unsung heroines, constituting 52% of the agricultural labor force and yielding 70% of the food crops in Ghana. Yet, economically, they benefit the least. ...