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Empowering Women in Agriculture « EWA » Initiative strives to empower women in African agriculture for viable livelihood and food security, as well as to become active economic agents in Africa’s agricultural transformation and sustainable development.

The main strategy is to effectively mainstream empowerment needs of women in African agriculture in all major development policies and programmes that promote agricultural growth, food security and structural transformation in Africa.

“The Assembly further notes progress made in the initiative to Empower Women in Agriculture (EWA) with priority areas of land reform, leadership, access to inputs and knowledge, and pledges support for enhancing the role of women in agriculture”. Head of States (HoS) Decision No. 473.

EWA Initiative appeal to Heads of State and governments of the African continent to « empower women in African agriculture for viable livelihood and food security, as well as to become active economic agents in Africa’s agricultural transformation and sustainable development ».

EWA is an innovative process of gender-inclusive change on the continent via the Africa’s agricultural transformation agenda. EWA has a mission to reinforce the potential of women in agriculture largely untapped due to systemic obstacles to full inclusion of women in the agricultural development process in Africa.