Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Women farmers can influence policy through theatre

SciDevNet: Theatre is a powerful tool to mobilise women farmers in Africa, say agriculture specialists Lindiwe Majele Sibanda and Sithembile Mwamakamba. Women farmers produce more than 90 per cent of the food on the African continent, yet they are largely excluded from decision-making: their needs are rarely reflected in local and national agricultural policies and they have limited access to credit, fertiliser, labour, seeds and other production inputs. In 2009 the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources...

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