Miss Mercy Joshua, the Programme Manager said the training was with the provision of farming tools to strengthen their capacity to access skills, resources, and opportunities to address climate challenges.

According to her, it will assist in boosting their farm production and enhance food security.

Joshua said the theme of the training was entitled: ‘Climate Justice And Economic Resilience Project For Rural Women Farmers In Nigeria’.

She said that many women in Nigeria are economically excluded due to varied socioeconomic factors and cultural barriers.

“The adverse impact of climate change worsens this situation.

“Nigeria’s climate is increasingly changing, evidenced in upsurges in temperature, variable rainfall, flooding and land degradation, with these changes bringing a gendered impact, as it disproportionately affects women and widens gender inequalities.

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“The small-scale women farmers lose opportunities, markets, and profits as climate change hits Nigeria.

“With a series of engagements with community leaders, women’s groups and local women farmers in 2022 and this year across the six geo-political zones, ICEHD, with support from African Development Fund (AWDF), had embarked upon the two-year project.JAMB Portal

“It is focused on empowering rural women farmers in Nigeria with knowledge, skills, resources and tools to enable them to access economic opportunities and be equipped with sustainable solutions to address climate challenges.

“This will enable them to achieve economic justice and the capacity to project their voices towards reforms in agricultural policy, gender mainstreaming in agricultural budgeting and financial inclusion, to promote the rights of women farmers in Nigeria,” she said.

Joshua stated that working with the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, Women’s Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources in this second year of the project, over 100 women farmers have been trained in Lagos.JAMB Result

She said that this is to achieve change where women can participate equally with men in accessing resources and

opportunities for economic advancement.

She stated further that the trained women farmers were empowered with farming tools such as garden tools, portable watering can, organic fertiliser, super-grow Booster and soil amendment.NYSC Portal 

“Also, a copy of the ICEHD book publication titled ‘Power of Resilience: Nigerian Women Farmers Share Their Challenges and Experiences was given to them to further their knowledge base.

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