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In rural Liberia, the agricultural sector has faced persistent challenges due to limited access to essential resources and infrastructure, including agricultural machinery, irrigation facilities, and reliable power sources, where the access rate to electricity remains at just 8 percent among the rural population in the country (World Bank, 2021).  Mobile farm solutions for rural farmers in Liberia  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Government of the United Arab Emirates and Elite Agro Holding, a UAE-based private company, has taken a significant step to address this issue by leveraging their respective strengths and resources.  The unique...

This week’s Science and Innovation Forum at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) offered an opportunity to showcase innovations and collaborations which have the potential to transform agrifood systems and step up climate action - new technologies, public–private partnerships, knowledge-sharing networks, and capacity building programmes.  Against this backdrop, FAO and the International Agri-Food Network (IAFN), a coalition of international agrifood trade associations and national farmer organizations, welcomed a new cohort of 50 participants to their Accelerator Mentorship Programme for Women-led SMEs in Africa. The programme, in its second year, pairs selected women entrepreneurs from small and medium...

EU-STREIT PNG Programme strengthens cocoa farmers’ MSMEs across the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea and supports their connection with domestic and international niche markets for premium prices. Wewak, Papua New Guinea – Cocoa farmers from a remote community living along the mighty Sepik River are now connected to the leading cocoa industry players in the country and overseas and receive a premium price for their quality cocoa products. With support from the EU-STREIT PNG Programme and PNG Investment Promotion Authority (IPA), MUPA Cocoa Cooperative Society, comprised of 240 farmers from two villages in Yuat LLG of Angoram District in East Sepik...

Women in business are at the heart of FAO’s mandate to reduce rural poverty and achieve food security for all.  That’s why in October 2022, 50 women entrepreneurs working in the agrifood sector across Sub-Saharan Africa were chosen to participate in the first year of the FAO-IAFN Women’s Accelerator Mentorship Programme for Women-led SMEs in Africa.  Participants were selected from an open call for expressions of interest by a panel of experts from FAO and IAFN.  CONNECT Portal will be regularly featuring the stories of the hard-working women who took part in the programme. You can read the eleventh in our series of articles on these women below.    Rahel Heruy Rahel...

Women in business are at the heart of FAO’s mandate to reduce rural poverty and achieve food security for all.  That’s why in October 2022, 50 women entrepreneurs working in the agrifood sector across Sub-Saharan Africa were chosen to participate in the first year of the FAO-IAFN Women’s Accelerator Mentorship Programme for Women-led SMEs in Africa.  Participants were selected from an open call for expressions of interest by a panel of experts from FAO and IAFN.  CONNECT Portal will be regularly featuring the stories of the hard-working women who took part in the programme. You can read the tenth in our series of articles on these women below.    Margret Paida...