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ZLECAf: le Togo dispose désormais d’un document consolidé sur les femmes opératrices économiques
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- August 19, 2021
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Les choses se précisent au niveau du Togo pour les femmes dans le commerce de la Zone de libre-échange continental africain (ZLECAf). Après avoir été consultées dans 9 villes et 7 frontières, les femmes entrepreneures, transformatrices et commerçantes ont validé jeudi à Lomé le rapport des consultations nationales dans le
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L’AFRIQUE INVITÉE À SUPPRIMER LES BARRIÈRES COMMERCIALES DANS LA CHAÎNE DE VALEUR ALIMENTAIRE
Les gouvernements africains doivent travailler avec les parties prenantes tout au long de la chaîne de valeur de l’agriculture pour harmoniser les politiques commerciales intra-africaines en vue d’accroître les échanges transfrontaliers, a déclaré, jeudi à Nairobi, une organisation à but non lucratif.La Directrice exécutive du Réseau des femmes africaines dans
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VICTORY FOR AFRICAN WOMEN SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AS AU PREPARES TO RETIRE THE HAND-HOE TO THE MUSEUM.
Mechanization of African agriculture has the potential to create rural employment benefitting women smallholder farmers and youth innovators”, African Women Agribusiness Network – Afrika (AWAN-Afrika) has said. Welcoming the African Union campaign to “#RetireTheHoe to the Museum,” AWAN-Afrika Executive Director (ED), Beatrice Gakuba said low levels of mechanization have contributed
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PRESS RELEASE: AFRICAN GRAIN TRADE SUMMIT 2019
AWAN-Afrika and #Value4Her call for urgent action to remove trade barriers in the food staple value chain. 1 October 2019: African governments should work with stakeholders along the agriculture value chain to harmonize intra-African food trade policies in order to increase trade across borders. This will go a long way in
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WORLD SMES DAY: WOMEN AND YOUTH LED AGRIBUSINESSES IN THE EYE OF THE COVID-19 STORM
COVID-19 has impacted Micro- Small and Medium Enterprises that are already vulnerable to internal shocks due to lack of access to finance, markets and digitization which is the latest addition to a long list of gender inequalities that continue to disproportionately affect them. Since March, almost all African countries were
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AFRICA’S AGRIBUSINESS TO AVERT A FOOD CRISIS
In Kenya’s coastal Mombasa County, Mercy Mghanga, reminisces her past, not so long ago, she sold tonnes of fish to five star hotels in the tourist town and exported the rest to China. More than a month since Kenya announced that it has confirmed its first case of COVID-19, the
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FOR AFRICA’S FOOD SECURITY, YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE AND AGRIBUSINESS WILL BE VITAL.
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AFRICA’S FACE OF AGRICULTURE IS FEMALE
Africa has a huge opportunity to make agriculture its economic driver. However, the potential for this is far from being made exhaustive use of, one reason being that women face considerable difficulties in their economic activities. The organisation AWAN Afrika seeks to change this state of affairs.
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Beatrice Gakuba: Supporting Africa’s Agribusiness to avert a food crisis
In Kenya’s coastal Mombasa County, Mercy Mghanga, reminisces her past, not so long ago, she sold tonnes of fish to five-star hotels in the tourist town and exported the rest to China. More than a month since Kenya announced that it has confirmed its first case of COVID-19, the consequences
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INTERVIEW | “We’re making African youths see agribusiness as profitable” – Beatrice Gakuba
Gakuba: There are lots of opportunities yet, many people don’t know about them. At AWAN-Afrika, we work with women who own registered agribusiness with a minimum capital of $20, 000, including small and medium enterprises. Although we may still consider agribusiness with a minimum capital of $20, 000 as small, they
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