AGRICULTURE NEWS - Women account for about 50% of all farmers in East Africa and Southern Africa, with around 70% of them living in poverty and being disproportionately affected by extreme weather and the loss of agricultural property.
This was according to Tracy Kajumba, principal researcher and team leader of the International Institute for Environment and Development at the Climate Change Group in Uganda.
She was speaking during the 2021 Top Women Conference webinar hosted by Standard Bank and Topco, where modern technology and solutions to inclusion in agriculture were discussed.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly
