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Africa: How Women-Led Agribusinesses Boost Nutrition on the Continent
IPS, 24 August 2020
Oluwaseun Sangoleye's son developed rickets after rejecting baby formula. So she started a business to make natural baby cereal from locally-sourced ingredients in Nigeria. Read more »
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Nigeria: Plateau Women Make Earnings From Irish Potato
Daily Trust, 5 August 2020
Many women in Plateau State have been making considerable earnings from the cultivation and sales of Irish potato, which over the years has become the most cultivated crop on the… Read more »
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Tanzania: Oxfam Reiterates Support to Women Farmers
Daily News, 7 August 2020
OXFAM Tanzania has expressed its commitment to support local farmers, especially women in its quest to help end hunger and poverty in the country. Read more »
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Gambia: 'NEDI Committed to Youth, Women Entrepreneurship Development'
The Point, 24 August 2020
The general manager of the National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI), Mr. Abass Bah has reaffirmed NEDI's commitment towards entrepreneurship development of women and youth… Read more »
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Malawi: Over 15, 000 Women to Benefit From Agribusiness in Ntchisi
Malawi News Agency, 13 August 2020
A local nongovernmental organisation in Ntchisi- Women Agriculture Development Organisation (WADO), says will train at least 15, 000 smallholder women farmers in agribusiness in… Read more »
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Namibia: Okakarara Woman Poultry Farmer Narrates Journey in the Industry ... Calls for Investors
New Era, 30 June 2020
Poultry farmer Vetjavi Mutjavikua, a resident of Otumborombonga, some 16km north-west of Okakarara, has shared her poultry farming experience, saying for one to succeed, a… Read more »
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Nigeria: How Local Fowl Farming Can Lift Rural Women
Daily Trust, 25 June 2020
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How Women-Led Agribusinesses Are Boosting Nutrition in Africa
Oluwaseun Sangoleye's son developed rickets after rejecting baby formula. So she started a business to make natural baby cereal from locally-sourced ingredients in Nigeria. Sangoleye is one of a small but growing number of women who are heading up agribusinesses in Africa, some of which are producing innovative products to combat malnutrition.The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the fragility of current food systems and has amplified poverty, inequalities and food insecurity. While there are no conclusive figures on the number of women participating in agribusinesses across the continent, the African Women in Agribusiness Network (AWAN) works in 42 African countries, linking 1,600 women's networks in different sectors, writes Busani Bafana for IPS.
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Sub-Saharan Africa's farming sector has grown faster than anywhere else in the world with a 4.6 percent agriculture GDP growth rate from 2000 to 2018. But about 20 percent of ... Read more »
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A 2017 case study titled "Women's Access to Land in Tanzania" revealed that the majority of small-scale women farmers are illiterate and lack the capacity to fight for their ... Read more »
The partnership between Mastercard Foundation and IITA aims to enable 242,724 young Nigerian women and men to build skills and secure dignified and fulfilling work opportunities in the agrifood value chain over the next 5 years.
