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International women’s rights day 2023 – Celebrate women in the agrifood sector!
- 08/03/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: ACP EN
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Women are essential contributors to agriculture and the rural economy, as labour and production workers, as drivers of innovations and entrepreneurs, and as owners of farms, input supply stores, service delivery businesses and export firms. About a third of all global established businesses are women owned and managed (GEM. Women’s Entrepreneurship 2020/21: Thriving Through Crisis), while women are the main drivers of global food production (UNDP. Gender And Climate Change – Gender, climate change and food security). Empowering women entrepreneurship… + -
News digest: Agri-food Systems and Sustainability
- 08/04/2022
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: ACP EN, News
Climate IPCC issues bleakest warning yet on climate breakdown The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published its latest report on the state of the climate crisis. It states that climate breakdown is accelerating rapidly and many of the impacts will be more severe than predicted. Everywhere is affected, with no inhabited region escaping dire impacts from rising temperatures and increasingly extreme weather. About half the global population – between 3.3 and 3.6 billion people – live in areas… + -
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS DAY 2022
- 08/03/2022
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: ACP EN, News
Celebrate women in the agrifood sector! Worldwide, about a third of established businesses are women owned and managed.1 Sub-Saharan Africa has of the highest rates of women’s entrepreneurs.2 Latin America and the Caribbean region show a high rate of women entrepreneurs involved in high-growth activity and manufacturing and transportation sector, half of them being under the age of 35.3 Women are a significant entrepreneurial force as owners of farms, input supply stores, service delivery businesses, and processing and export firms… + -
Women bear the fruits of success!
- 08/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Kenya, News, Nigeria
For International Women’s Day 2021, COLEACP is celebrating women’s achievements in Kenyan horticulture. Women entrepreneurs – as farm owners, input suppliers, service delivery enterprises, and running processing and export businesses – contribute to local, national and global economies, with significant impact on poverty reduction, job creation and the well-being of rural communities and society as a whole. PURITY NAISHO is a founding director of Interveg Exports EPZ Limited, a family-owned business. She is also the current vice chair of the… + -
International Women’s Rights Day 2021
- 08/03/2021
- Posted by: Zuzana Majeska
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
Celebrate with PAFO and COLEACP women innovations in the agrifood sector! Women still face too many challenges in finding jobs in the formal economy or starting and developing businesses, due to insufficient conducive policies and normslow rates of land ownership, as well as access and control over resources and limited access to credit. However, women are a significant entrepreneurial force as owners of farms, input supply stores, service delivery businesses, and processing and export firms whose contributions to local, national,… +
