Sentences with phrase «increasing women farmers»

Madam Boateng said each parliamentary aspirant was to make a presentation and a pledge to ensure that policies and programmes for increasing women farmers» access to productive resources including micro credit, inputs supplies productive, productive lands, agricultural extension services and appropriate technologies among other things are espoused.

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It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

If women farmers had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase their yields by 20 - 30 %.

I know lots of men who are doing lots of things — working to make the world safer from nuclear weapons, helping poor farmers in Africa and Sudan increase their crops so they can feed their families, investigating fraud, fighting for justice... Oh, wait — that's not what Regnerus means; he means try getting them to woo a woman properly and commit and marry.

«O - Robo is a women's capacity building component of O - REAP's QIIP - a short term intervention directed to fill apparent needs - gap of small to medium scale farmers to engineer the process of food sufficiency and increased income of the people of Osun state through high impact timely interventions.

The leaders of the women farmers took turns to express their problems including credit facilities, lack of marketing for their produce after harvesting, and farm inputs to increase their farms.

Kuapa Kokoo, is a farmers» co-op in Ghana that trades its own cocoa, and means good cocoa growers — it has a mission to empower farmers in their efforts to gain a dignified livelihood, to increase women's participation in all of Kuapa's activities, and to develop environmentally friendly cultivation of cocoa.

Given the prominence of agricultural work in women's lives, productivity - enhancing equipment like water pumps and rice hullers have the potential to reduce working hours, lower costs, and increase revenues for women farmers.