Women labor force participation in primary production agriculture is predicted to be 46.44% of total labor force in 2019 (World Bank, 2019). In some countries, they constitute the majority. However, many women still lack access to productive resources such as land, livestock, financial services, agricultural tools and household assets.
Women account for approximately half of all rural farmers in Ghana. Despite this, they produce 20% to 30% less than men farmers due to two layers of exclusion. That is, as women and smallholder farmers.
Equalizing this disparity might increase agricultural productivity and reduce global hunger by 17%.
Agriculture is more likely than other industries to give different opportunities for women’s empowerment. Women farmers, on the other hand, face obstacles that hinder them from feeding their families and reinvesting in their businesses. They confront gender-related constraints in addition to the financial difficulties experienced by all small-scale farmers. It is evident that:
Development of Small-scale agriculture, where women play a critical role is an effective way of reducing hunger and poverty. Women grow a lot of food to feed their families and the communities they operate in. Little has, however, been done to ensure that they have the resources they require to improve their livelihoods, combat food insecurity, and strengthen the resilience of their communities to climate change.
The “Support Women In Agriculture Programme” at Centre of Abilities alleviates the obstacles that keep women farmers from getting vital farming support and training. We ensure that, women have secure land rights, as well as provide critical finance and operational support including technology for farming, climate change adaptation and post-harvest loss management system. Our Programme assists women to preserve their rights while also increasing their productivity. It successfully alleviates poverty and hunger by unleashing the potential of hundreds of thousands of women farmers.
Centre of Abilities runs this Programme in two folds to address discrimination (i.e., land and livestock ownership, equal pay, participation in decision-making as one fold and access to credit and financial services as the other) that permits us to work at two levels. At government level, we assist to ensure that policies promote gender equality. At the individual level, we empower women with entrepreneurial and business planning skills to make them independent and be able to participate in the local economy.
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| Farm Management System: Crop management, livestock management, pest control, record keeping, record keeping, optimal harvesting period management, risk management and Post-Harvest Loss Prevent |
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