• Rural women – heroes and role models – are not celebrated enough

    • 15/10/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Angola, Caribbean, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, News, Nigeria, Pacific, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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    Did you know? “Rural women make up a quarter of the world’s population and work as farmers, entrepreneurs or agricultural workers” United Nations. To celebrate the International Day of Rural Women (15 October) and World Food Day (16 October), COLEACP joins the UN in celebrating the resilience of rural women in the wake of Covid-19. The pandemic has affected most sectors, and many are still struggling to recover. Agriculture is no exception, especially the women in this sector. According to… +
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  • Women bear the fruits of success!

    • 08/03/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Kenya, News, Nigeria
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    Les femmes portent les fruits du succès !
    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… +
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  • Training in vegetable production (including post-harvest) for a women’s cooperative of Global Shea Alliance

    • 26/11/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Ghana, News, Shea
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    As part of COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme, training in vegetable production was organised for the Global Shea Alliance (GSA). The objective was to strengthen the participants’ technical skills on crop seasonality – what can be produced between October and April (shea off-season), good agricultural practices, crop protection, integrated pest management (IPM), safe use of pesticides, and post-harvest practices. Participants showed great interest and the training was highly appreciated. The next step, which is training on hygiene and food safety,… +
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