Photo Story: AWARD Side Event at Africa Food Systems Forum 2025 Dakar, Senegal

Nouveau rapport révèle des inégalités de genre persistantes dans les systèmes agroalimentaires d’Afrique subsaharienne, malgré la contribution des femmes qui représentent la moitié de la main-d’œuvre

Publié pour la première fois sur le site de la FAO.  La FAO, le NRI et AWARD présentent de nouvelles données sur la situation des femmes dans les systèmes agroalimentaires d’Afrique subsaharienne  2 septembre 2025, Dakar – En Afrique subsaharienne, environ trois femmes sur quatre (76 pour cent) travaillent dans les systèmes agroalimentaires, et les […]

New report exposes pervasive gender inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa’s agrifood systems, despite women powering half the agrifood workforce

First published on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) website.  02/09/2025 In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately three out of four working women (76 percent) are employed in agrifood systems, and women make up 49 percent of the agrifood systems workforce. Within agrifood systems, women’s employment in off-farm segments – such as production, […]

Closed Session: Building Food Systems Leadership

Together with partners including African Food Fellowship, AGRA’s Centre for African Leadership in Agriculture (CALA), The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) we shall host a closed roundtable discussion aimed at catalysing political, institutional and financial support for food systems leadership as an essential enabler to achieve the Kampala Declaration goals. 

AWARD Side Event: Women, Work and Wealth: Driving Inclusive Agrifood Systems

Putting women at the center of agrifood transformation is an urgent imperative that aligns with global goals for gender equality, decent work, and zero hunger. This session will spotlight how gender gaps affect agrifood systems and how we can address these gaps. Discussions will focus on three main pillars, including: enhancing women’s access to productive […]

Thematic session: Women in Food Systems

While addressing women’s roles in production, processing, trading, and households’ food consumption, we must also consider how the women are positioned in the agri-food systems, their accessibility to innovations, their vulnerability and resilience to climate change, their agency and participation in decision making, and how the policy environment influences all these. This session will explore […]

Plenary session: Empower Women in Agrifood Systems Advancing Nutrition & Health

Unlock the full potential of Africa’s food and nutrition landscape by championing its most vital players: women. While women form the backbone of our agrifood systems, they remain critically underserved and under-resourced. This powerful plenary confronts this disparity head-on, putting a spotlight on women’s leadership and rights as the key to transformative change. Be present […]