Our primary focus is empowering Women. Women are responsible for at least 70 percent of food production in Africa. They are also important in other agricultural activities, including food processing and marketing, cash cropping and animal husbandry.

Women’s involvement is significant not only in terms of their labor input, but also in terms of their decision-making authority. And as more men migrate from rural areas for work, an increasingly large number of women are managing farms on a day to day basis.

All small-scale farmers, regardless of gender, face constraints, but the focus here is on women farmers in order to foster a better understanding of the particular gender-related barriers confronting women and the strategies needed to overcome them. Attention is concentrated on women in rural areas in view of their crucial role  in agriculture and in their families well being.

Empowering women means also empowering their families and the communities where they live. By including men farmers, our action is to allow the families to all contribute to the efforts without creating frustration among communities. We have also experienced many situations, where because many funding organizations are looking for women organizations, farmers will create an association with women as leaders but who actually have very little decision making or are aware of what is going on in their association.