Smallholder Women Farmers

Smallholder Women Farmers

Our plight as female farmers

By Innocent DURU IN October 2019, the Federal Government launched the National Gender Policy in Agriculture (NGPA), to give women farmers across the country more...

Editorial - August 28, 2021

Food crisis looms in Anambra

...As climate change, govt neglect cripple business for women farmers By Aloysius ATTAH, Onitsha IFEYINWA Mbonu, a small-scale farmer in Anambra State, finds it hard to...

Editorial - August 26, 2021

Abuja women farmers at the mercy of changing climate

AGNES Matthias has been idle at home for months, waiting for the rains to fall so she could begin work on her farm. She wakes...

Marcus Fatunmole - July 30, 2021

Climate change threatens our survival, women farmers in Niger cry out

FEMALE farmers in Niger State have raised alarm that Nigeria might experience a severe food crisis beginning from this year because of the adverse...

Editorial - July 17, 2021

How Abuja women farmers resort to self-help

DESPITE being close to the seat of power, smallholder women farmers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are starved of implements needed to drive...

Editorial - July 9, 2021

Jigawa women farmers decry neglect as govt pays lip service to agriculture

Elijah Ojonicko AKOJI FOR most farmers, rainfall brings blessings and gains. But in Madori Local Government Area, Jigawa State, it has become a source of...

Editorial - July 5, 2021

The many hurdles of women farmers in Niger

By Obinna UNAEZE GRACE Disa was discouraged at the fact that no funds were allocated to smallholder women farmers in Niger State. In March 2021,...

Editorial - July 3, 2021

Climate change: Oyo smallholder female farmers count losses, seek govt. support

By Akinwale ABOLUWADE FOR female farmers in Oyo State under the aegis of Smallholder Women Farmers of Nigeria (SWOFON), climate change is a compelling reality...

Editorial - June 29, 2021

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