Celebrating Rural Women’s Day: Stories of empowerment, entrepreneurship and resilience from the fields

Female farmer picking crops - rural women, stories from the field
This week, we celebrated Rural Women’s Day (15 October) – an important opportunity to mark women’s valuable contribution to agriculture. The UN states that women make up, on average, over 40% of the agricultural labour force. In some countries in Africa and Asia, this figure is much higher. In Ghana, for example, women produce 70%…
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