Our Impact
Building rural resilience for women farmers
Despite providing for most of country’s food requirements, rural farmers still have not reached their full potential in developing countries.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural production is by rural farmers and the female share the agricultural labor force is the highest in the world. Almost half of the world’s extreme poor live in Sub-Saharan Africa. The vast majority work in agriculture.
However, women do not get their due share of rights. Mostly, they have to handle the household tasks like cooking and collecting firewood and water along with agricultural work.
Limited excess to land, agricultural and technology services makes it only more difficult for women to compete with farms being handled by men.
Women empowerment is one of our fundamental principles. It is seen to have wider benefits as well. Women tend to invest more in their homes and families. Thus, when a woman earns, she provides more nutritious food and keep them healthy. According to a research by UN’s Food Agriculture Organization, farm yields could be increased by 20-30% if women were handling them. Consequently, this would reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17%.
Our impact and activities go hand in hand. We work with a productive approach, understanding the cultural norms and the problems women might face in this perspective; Adaptations are made to the programs accordingly. Also, we upcycle food that would normally go to waste because of limited market share.
We work in West African countries to enhance value chains and diversify income for rural farmers to help empower rural communities.
- We help the whole community grow and prosper by providing new opportunities to women. This opens new streams of income to help women get out of poverty.
- About 2.8 trillion pounds of food is wasted every year. Up to 95% of this wastage is due to food loss. It means that the produced food expires before reaching the market.
- Another achievement is to cut the middlemen. One of the most prominent factor due to which farmers do not get their rightful share are middlemen. By providing better excess to markets we diversify income for farmers. Not just that, up to 8 times the average daily wage is provided to the farmers. For further development it is made sure that all the extra earnings are reinvested into local community. In short, the local farmers reap every grain they sow
All of these achievements make our cause even more important to women.
With improved economic performance
That implement good practices
Under smart management practices
Packaged local products sold in retail stores