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  • August 19, 2021

    ZLECAf: le Togo dispose...

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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...

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  • July 9, 2021

    L’AFRIQUE INVITÉE À SUPPRIMER...

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    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...

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  • July 9, 2021

    VICTORY FOR AFRICAN WOMEN...

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    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...

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  • July 9, 2021

    PRESS RELEASE: AFRICAN GRAIN...

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    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...

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  • July 9, 2021

    WORLD SMES DAY: WOMEN...

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    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...

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  • July 9, 2021

    AFRICA’S AGRIBUSINESS TO AVERT...

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    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...

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  • July 9, 2021

    FOR AFRICA’S FOOD SECURITY,...

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  • June 12, 2021

    AFRICA’S FACE OF AGRICULTURE...

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    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.