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Sign up for this online webinar to hear speakers from Africa and Europe address the challenges & opportunities for women in business in Africa, hosted by Self Help Africa
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Acacia trees are providing incomes and jobs for thousands of small scale farming households in remote parts of Kenya.
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Investment of more than €6m has been awarded in match-funding to 12 Kenyan agri-businesses, in a programme to strengthen markets and create farming jobs.
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More than 220 women and young people in North-Eastern Uganda are growing ginger as a cash crop to generate an income and support local market demand.
Read MoreWorld Food Day 2020: Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together.
World Food Day 2020 will be celebrated on Friday, 16 October, with the theme Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together – thanking farmers and food system workers.
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Lilian joined the Tutulane farmer field school in Malawi, where she learned about new farming technologies.
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