Please accept the contribution below from Cesarie Kantarama, a woman farmer from Rwanda and part of the Eastern Africa Farmers' Federation
Women play a huge role in rural and urban economies. The majority of them are the rural women that their participation in sustainable development is significant. So, investing in rural women is one of the solutions for promoting food security, fighting against poverty and promoting well being. As a contribution of this topic some points are proposed:
Promoting education of girls and women
Promotion of equal opportunity of management to resources, assets and land tenure rights
Promotion of participation in private sector
Promoting the rural entrepreneurship
Empowering women’s collective activities
Prevent violence against women
Training on agriculture techniques and environment protection
Training on marketing
Promotion of smalls rural processing unit
Access to credit and saving
Improving women participation in value chain system
Infrastructure to impact positively the work of rural females (transport , safe water,day nursery ……)
Rural women international day shall be valorized by all level .
Please accept the contribution below from Cesarie Kantarama, a woman farmer from Rwanda and part of the Eastern Africa Farmers' Federation
Women play a huge role in rural and urban economies. The majority of them are the rural women that their participation in sustainable development is significant. So, investing in rural women is one of the solutions for promoting food security, fighting against poverty and promoting well being. As a contribution of this topic some points are proposed:
KANTARAMA CESARIE
RWANDA