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Graphic Online BY: Maclean Kwofi 30.5k Shares 705 Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has launched a new platform designed to facilitate the growth and development of women-owned agribusiness enterprises in the country. Dubbed: “ #VALUE4HERConnect”, the new platform seeks to help bring women entrepreneurs in agriculture together in a virtual community in order to be able to connect, network and grow their businesses. The platform, which is targeting more than 500,000 women entrepreneurs in Ghana, is being implemented in other African countries such as Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique. Breakfast meeting Launching the platform at the VALUE4HER Networking and Advocacy Breakfast on Tuesday, April 6 in Accra, the Regional Head of West Africa at AGRA, Mr Forster Boateng, observed that the platform was expected to provide important business and capacity development resources for ....
Equality for Ghanaian Women in Agriculture WINTER PARK, Florida Ghanaian women in agriculture are gaining influence and equitable treatment in increasing ways. Women contribute to around 70% of the country’s agricultural production, marketing and processing, yet they face several challenges. These challenges involve lack of ownership and limited access to productive and arable land, low literacy rates, lack of access to information, low participation in agricultural governance, poverty and insufficient access to credit facilities. Organizations like ActionAid Ghana aim to address the challenges that Ghanaian women in agriculture face. Ghanaian Women in Agriculture The gender gap in the agricultural industry globally is severe. Despite women comprising almost half of the agricultural force in developing countries, women-run farms produce 20-30% fewer yields than male-run farms. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) maintains that this disparity is directly li ....
705 As part of efforts to empower women as Ghana joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day (IWD), Ghanaian women entrepreneurs have called for the empowerment of women in their respective fields. For the women in agribusiness, empowering women in agricultural research was a key strategy for sustainable agricultural development. The Executive Director of the Development Action Association (DAA), development-oriented farmer-based organisation, Mrs Lydia Sasu, in an interview on March 5, 2021, noted that although women in agribusiness significantly contributed to the agricultural development in the country, they seemed invisible in agricultural research and knowledge transfer. She said agricultural research was important as scientists sought to discover procedures that would increase livestock and crop yields, improve farmland productivity, reduce loss due to disease and insects and increase overall food quality. ....