Women Farmers Continue to Battle for Resources

Women farmers battle to access land and financial services, despite comprising more than half of the agriculture workforce, highlighting the need for the first Global Conference on Women in Agriculture currently underway in India.

Farmers teaching farmers in Tanzania.

  • Africa:  Women Scientists Face Tough Choices

    allAfrica, 12 March 2012

    Rufaro Madakadze, a horticultural scientist with the Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA), was visiting a student recently in northern Ethiopia to discuss her acceptance into an… Read more »

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