African Women in Agriculture launches World Food Day Activities with a Planting Day
Join them by planting wherever you are.
As part of World Food Day 2020 preparations, African Women in Agriculture (AWIA) has decided to arrange a Planting Day campaign designed to raise awareness on the plight of emerging farmers.
AWIA is a women’s organization whose vision is to capacitate women’s access to the agricultural ecosystem, driving socio economic impact through the initiation of disruptive virtual and physical communities. In response to the low participation of African women in agriculture, AWIA, was founded as a Non Profit Company in May 2018, with the purpose of developing, promoting and supporting women agri-preneurs.
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AWIA’s first project is in South Africa and beyond have limited access to finance, agricultural inputs such as seeds, farming implements and transport. They are impacted by a lack of agricultural skills and infrastructure, and the majority of them are involved in small-scale farming due to limited resources. The organization says it intends to run a number of initiatives to raise awareness.
“We will be planting spinach and spring onion seedlings Today, 29th September in Bronkhorstfontein in preparation for World Food Day which this year falls on October 16, 2020. AWIA has access to 10 hectares of arable and fertile land in the Bronkhorstfontein/ Eikenhof area in Johannesburg South which is ideally located for our beneficiaries,” read a statement.
The organization has asked all women farmers to join them however they can and wherever they are.
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