smallholder women farmers

FOR many women with disabilities in Nasarawa State, traditional farming is almost impossible because of mobility challenges, limited access...

THE International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) has concluded a two-day virtual training for journalists selected to participate in...

THE forced acquisition of land by the Nasarawa State government has left many smallholder farmers, especially women, without a...

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

They prepared, borrowed money and materials to invest in efforts at getting a bountiful harvest in the year 2020. Many of them, apparently encouraged by the experience of the past few years, did not want to waste the opportunity offered by the times. But before the end of the first quarter of the year a pandemic, not seen in recent history, happened on the world and sent everybody scampering for cover. 

This is the lamentation of Peace Chijioke, one of the small scale women farmers resident in Abuja as she recounts the recent ordeal she and her family went through following the lockdown necessitated by the Coronavirus pandemic.