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African women are the glue that binds the society's fabric. Even in today's African urbanized societies, women are the backbone of family and national stability. African women contribute about 70% to food security despite this, women continue to bear the brunt of an ever worsening food security situation.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, women have less access to education, labour, fertilizers and other inputs that are available to their male counter parts. Despite the enormous contribution women make to agriculture, they are often forgotten and rarely consulted when new technologies are being developed. Researchers maintain that even though women are the pillars of Africa's agricultural sector, they lack technological skills to boost productivity. Empowering farmers especially women is therefore important for uptake of technologies that enhance agricultural productivity on the continent. Technology can help women farmers by reducing their workload and increasing their productivity and income.
As such, Africa Harvest believes that women have a very big role to play in Africa's Green Revolution. In our successfully focus on the use of technology to improving crops, we have witnessed the importance of women. For example, the technology transfer of high-yielding, disease-free tissue culture banana has been successful, partly because banana was previously viewed as a 'woman's crop'. The objective of this project was to increase the banana yields and incomes to growers by providing institutional framework as a support to the production programme.
Africa Harvest has used a Whole Value Chain (WVC) approach and tied this with entrepreneurial training designed to view the farm as a business unit. The strategic...
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