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. ...

Photo credit: CABI. By Sandra Phelps, Gender Manager, CABI On International Women’s Day, we must celebrate women’s progress in agriculture. Women are embracing agricultural services and training. They are empowering themselves and becoming skilled farmers in their own right. However, we must also address the barriers that so many women farmers continue to face. The ...

UN Women’s approaches to Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) in Sudan are focused on enhancing the productive capacities and the productivity of women.  “I am feeling happy because I no longer have to buy maize from the market to feed my children” she said., Hawa is one of about 150 other women farmers in the area called Al-Saffarah in Al-Qalabat, about 20 kilometers southeast of Gedaref state. According to FAO -Women represent ...

Study shows that the engagement of African women and young people in agricultural service provision is ‘not a panacea to the challenges they face’ such as limited decision-making in production and income. Credit: CABI The role of African women and young people engaged in agricultural service provision has been investigated in a new CABI-led study published ...

The Nigeria Women for Agricultural Progress (NWAP) have lamented the continued exclusion of women from major government interventions. NWAP stated that women farmers have yet to benefit from over N15 trillion interventions in the agricultural sector from 1999 till date. The National Coordinator of NWAP, Omolara Swenson, while speaking at the ‘Women in Agriculture and ...

Monrovia — At the climax of events marking the 2022 International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture in Africa held virtually by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the head of Liberia’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA), Madam Emma Metieh Glassco says her leadership has taken giant steps to empower women in the fisheries and ...

Women in Agriculture for Sustainable Development (WASUDEV) has ended a day-long capacity-building training for women in agriculture in Paynesville City. The Women in Agriculture for Sustainable Development (WASUDEV) has been supporting women’s agricultural activities by working with most small-scale farmers and farming groups. The training which was held under the theme: “Grooming successful women agribusiness ...