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Empowering Rural Women: Addressing Challenges in African Agriculture

This study explores how rural women in Africa are affected by food, fuel, and financial crises in agricultural activities. Women face limited access to financial services and land ownership, making them vulnerable to risks. AGRA's seed system program focuses on developing varieties adapted to local conditions and drought tolerance. Market Access initiatives aim to reduce costs, promote value addition, and enhance trade in staples. Strengthening capacities of both men and women can help mitigate crisis impacts. Traditional Grain Storage practices in Mali and improved facilities in Tanzania offer solutions.

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Empowering Rural Women: Addressing Challenges in African Agriculture

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  1. Food, fuel and financial crisis:Effects on the participation of rural women in the African agricultural economy Samuel Sey, Program Officer Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

  2. Female and male rural actors are impacted differently by crisis • Women’s access to financial services are more limited; • Women face greater challenges in access to and ownership of land for production; • Women and other disadvantaged groups are more vulnerable to agricultural risks; they disproportionately bear the brunt of crisis in the current free market regime; • Effects are felt most seriously at the householdslevel where women have the greatest responsibility for welfare and social reproduction.

  3. AGRA’s Program for Africa’s seed system • Focuses on ecology based breeding to take into account local problems like drought, maturity, color, storability, cook ability, pest and disease resistance, grain size and shape; • Some projects are specifically looking at development of varieties tolerant to drought. Crops being considered for this constraint are maize, beans, sorghum, cow peas and rice; • Develop drought tolerant /early maturing seed varieties; • The focus is to improve resilience of smallholder farmers, the majority women in their production in the face of crisis.

  4. Agro-dealers stock small packages of inputs to fit the needs of the smallholder farmers

  5. Market Access program • AGRA’s Market Access helps to: • Reduce transaction costs • Promote value addition • Increase demand of food staples through alternative uses • Promote an enabling environment for local and regional trade of food staples

  6. Improving male and female capacities to optimize incomes increases their ability to weather crisis Traditional Grain Storage in Mali Improved Grain Storage facility in Tanzania used warehouse receipt system

  7. THANK YOU

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