Since 2019, UN Women has partnered with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on “Contributing to the Empowerment of Women in Africa through Climate-Smart Agriculture”, a programme to provide technical farming skills, recommendations on best business practices, and climate-conscious agriculture methods to tens of thousands of women farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. About 66 per cent of working women in the region are employed in agriculture-related fields, according to a recent report by the FAO. Women’s working conditions “are likely to be worse than men’s”, the report found,…
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