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Nigeria’s federal budget includes support for women farmers, but many still feel left behind. So, for the first time, Ondo state is giving its smallholder women farmers their own line in its annual budget.
In rural Kenya, the Waata people were displaced by the creation of a national park. But solar-dried pineapples have offered a lifeline to women who had struggled to make a living from farming in the past.
The cultural norms in western Kenya told Martha Otieno that, as a woman, she couldn’t own land. So, she leased it instead, built a successful farming business, and is now on her way to becoming the first woman landowner in the region.
In rural Andhra Pradesh, it can be hard for women to make enough money to feed their families. But this group of women is taking on the male-dominated occupation of fish farming, and making it their own.
When a mining company offered to relocate villagers in Kwale County, Kenya one woman farmer refused to leave and another took the deal. Now both are struggling to make ends meet as they demand equal and fair compensation.
While farmers around Kenya struggle to grow enough maize to feed their families and their cattle, some women dairy farmers are boosting milk production and making money by growing and selling native grasses as cattle feed.
The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh needs a new capital, and the government wants to build it on the banks of the Krishna river. One woman is leading the fight against the development, which is slated to occupy some of the most fertile lands in the country.
Chinese demand for donkey skins has led to widespread poaching and pushed the price of the animals out of reach for many in Kenya. And when a family loses a donkey, it’s women who have to make up for the loss.
A self-help group of women farmers is defying the effects of climate change and making a steady income by growing drought-resistant sorghum on contract for a national brewery.
Due to voracious brokers, many Kenyan farmers make very little profit from selling their produce. But one social enterprise is teaching hundreds of farmers, most of them women, how to grow more and earn what they deserve.
Melany Grout Attorney and Land Tenure Specialist, Landesa
More than 400 million women around the globe are farmers, but many have no rights to the land they till. Securing those rights is crucial if the world wants to reach its development goals, writes land tenure specialist Melany Grout.
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