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Over 1400 rural women empowered through Climate-Smart Agriculture schemes

GODFREY LUGAAJU | PML Daily Senior Correspondent by GODFREY LUGAAJU | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
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Ms Linda Manda, the Sector Head of Agribusiness, Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank South Africa (PHOTO/File).

KAMPALA – In 2019, UN Women and Standard Bank Group came together to form a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) programme aimed at empowering more than 50,000 women farmers in Uganda, and other African countries like Malawi, Nigeria and South Africa.

The partnership that was aimed at taking up modern and environmentally friendly farming technologies to increase yields and incomes across the agriculture value chain was also designed to provide women farmers with the skills and resources needed to grow their operations and succeed in a changing climate.

In Uganda over 1,400 women farmers received 276,320 high-quality fish fingerlings of Tilapia species worth UGX2.6 billion and aquaculture farming technologies that have transformed their lives and livelihood.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Africa’s agriculture sector continues to be dominated by women with more than a third being employed and earning from the sector.

Ms Linda Manda, the Sector Head of Agribusiness, Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank South Africa says through the initiative, farmers have been able to access affordable inputs including feeds, accommodation and business management skills.

“Alongside access to financial services and quality farmlands, access to information has been identified as one of the biggest barriers to Africa’s small-scale women farmers; particularly information and data on yields, soil health, weather patterns, good farming practices, seasonality, market proximity, and market prices,” she explains.

However, the information gap makes it more difficult for many women farmers to gain good selling prices, and to access financial services products. The implementation of the African Continental Free-trade Area, which comes into force this year, is expected to open up new opportunities for value-addition in Agri-processing.

According to Ms Nidhi Tandon, the Socio-economic Advisor for the East and Southern Africa Region at UN Women, Africa’s farmers are at the frontline of climate change which means interventions are needed to help them adopt more sustainable practices while also adapting to the changing weather patterns.

Tandon explains that this is why the CSA project is providing them with access to drought-resistant seeds and more environmentally friendly fertilizers.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has also shown us why we need to push the boundaries of our natural environments and more must be done to restore and conserve biodiversity. Climate change could impact women farmers more than men given that women tend to carry more household and other responsibilities,” she shares.

Ms Tandon adds that as a result, UN Women focuses on supporting women in agriculture to fully and equally participate in decision-making necessary at all levels development such as; appropriate policy interventions; deployment of more effective tools, technologies, infrastructure and institutions to implement measures to build resilience; and the achievement of sustainable resource management for resilient green value chains.

The Climate-Smart Agriculture project is aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals which focuses on gender equality, access to decent work, and economic growth proved to have an immense economic opportunity for the countries.

This is especially if the right policies are in place, along with appropriate technologies and greater free trade and to ensure the success of the CSA initiative, Standard Bank has provided funding worth US$3 million as well as on-going support through financial literacy and other capacity-building programmes.

UN Women is responsible for full project development and management, technical support, coordination of partners, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting.

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