Smallholder Women Farmers

THE Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) has called on the federal and state governments to intervene in reducing the effect of...

THE Small Scale Women Farmers Organization of Nigeria (SWOFON) has identified lack of access to agricultural land as a major challenge faced by women...

AN estimated 70 percent of agricultural produce in Nigeria is produced by smallholder farmers, majority of whom are women. The women play a vital role...

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...

...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...

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...

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

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

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...