Youth Agri Champions Demand Paper 2023

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DEMAND 2 WOMEN AND CAPACITY BUILDING Youth AgriChampions Demand Paper 4
The Challenge: Capacity building does not reach enough women The Demand: Tailor capacity building to women’s needs We ask governments and development partners to Women make up half the world’s smallholder farmers, and in Africa they produce 70% of all food commit to closing gender productivity gaps by ensuring more women farmers benefit from [3]. Due to various factors, such as lower access to agricultural inputs, technologies, and high-quality capacity building related to climate-resilient agriculture. To make trainings more accessible to land, their yields are on average lower than those of men. Capacity building could help close this gender women, training providers should use information productivity gap, but trainings often fail to reach dissemination channels that reach women; women are still less likely than men to have access to mobile women effectively. Women tend to have less reliable access to information than men and may phones and the internet [4]. not know that trainings are taking place. If trainings Times and locations of training sessions should fit are provided in mixed-gender groups, they may feel unable to speak up or take initiative. around women’s schedules, childcare should be provided, and compensation should be available for both women and men to make up for lost work Women are more likely than men to lack the resources and ability to travel to attend trainings, or time. to leave their farms and households for extended periods of time due to significantly higher Where possible, women should have the option of attending women-only trainings, provided by household and care taking responsibilities. Trainings are usually scheduled at times that are female trainers. For occasions when that is not feasible, extension workers should be trained to convenient for men, which do not always work for women. Finally, women often lack decision-making understand and manage gender dynamics in mixed groups. power over how to use the land they farm and are therefore unable to put their learnings into practice. Trainings must include information on how gender equality benefits everyone, and how closing the gender productivity gap will increase yields overall [5]. They should also seek to increase support for women as decision makers within communities. [3] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/women-farmers-food-production-land-rights/ [4]https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/backgrounders/Pages/bridging-the-gender-divide.aspx [5]https://africa.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Field%20Office%20Africa/Attachments/Publications/2016/03/tech%20for%20rural%20 women%20policy%20brief-web.pdf Youth AgriChampions Demand Paper 5
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