Event talking about how we can catalyze finance for women food entrepreneurs through empowerment and game-changer proposals.

Join the presentation of emerging findings from the UN Joint Programme ‘Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women’ (JP RWEE).

Read this impact story of how SIANI has promoted land rights for women and indigenous people on the international agenda.

Improving the productivity of female farmers can step forward Malawi’s development and address its staggering poverty levels. But how to do that?

The proponents of multifunctional land use often claim this approach is highly beneficial for women. But is it?

Rachel Mwikali, presenting at the SIANI Members Meeting - Nairobi 2018

Female smallholder farmers have low access to markets due to time constraints, lack of market information and transportation disadvantage. These factors reduce their competitiveness and make them dependent on middlemen.

Doktor Linley Chirwona-Karltun och hedersdoktor Inge Gerremo på Sveriges jordbruksuniversitet (SLU) ställer frågan hur en nyvald kvinnlig ordförande för Afrikanska unionen (AU) och den kvinnliga presidenten för Malawi skulle kunna göra en skillnad i kampen mot hunger och i främjandet av jämställdhet.

Through a partnership between the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) of Oxford University a new index for measuring women's empowerment in the agricultural sector in developing countries.Wome