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,…...

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…...

By Florence Sipalla, Working in partnership with the CGIAR GENDER Accelerator, AWARD held a side event during the CGIAR Science Week that was held in April 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya. This event brought together a panel of experts to unpack…...

Overwhelming evidence has shown that women provide 60-80% of Africa’s agricultural labor. Yet women farmers in sub-Saharan Africa manage 20-30% less productive plots of land than men, not because of a skill or effort issue but because of unequal access…...

Rwanda launched the Africa Food Systems Forum 2024 with a Call for Radical Transformation of African Food Systems. The event, which was spearheaded by Rt. Hon Dr. Èdouard Ngirente, Prime Minister of Rwanda, took place in Kigali on March 26,…...

World leaders, innovators, academia, development agencies,  farmers organizations, and the private sector from across Africa and beyond will convene in Rwanda to participate in the annual Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) from September 2 to 6, 2024. This year’s summit…...

African Women in Agricultural Research for Development (AWARD) partnered with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to deliver a virtual workshop on IFPRI’s new Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) assessment tool. WEAGov aims to plug existing gaps in…...

African Women in Agricultural Research for Development (AWARD) hosted the launch of the Virtual Mentoring Orientation Workshop (MOW) that welcomed 42 Emerging Policy Practitioners (EPPs) to the Gender Responsive Agricultural Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship. The EPPs are nominated into the…...

Addressing gender equality and women’s empowerment means addressing the constraining social norms and rigid gender roles that affect women's participation in agrifood systems. As the world looks to recover and reimagine agrifood systems, increasing attention is being placed on addressing…...

Experts working across different sectors of agri-food systems have called for enhanced women's representation in the agricultural value chain, which would necessitate the design of gender-responsive policies in agrifood systems across the continent. The thought leaders convened at a side…...