Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: Human Rights, Women and Girls, Environment
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Women farmers grow and harvest the majority of food crops in Sudan by hand, backbreaking work made harder by frequent droughts and floods resulting from global climate change. Ongoing warfare, displacement and poverty have increased the need for already scarce food. Yet the government’s farm aid programs traditionally deny women access to credit and agricultural inputs, such as seeds, fertilizer and tools.
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Women Farmers Unite gives women the tools, resources and technical assistance they need to sustain their families for the long haul. Since recently purchasing a tractor, the farmers are now working to purchase an important attachment: a disc harrow. The disc harrow allows for deeper plowing, giving plants more access to underground water sources. This is an important adaptation now that climate change is causing more droughts in Sudan. |
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By consolidating resources and knowledge Women Farmers Unite will increase the productivity of small subsistence farm plots managed by women. As a result, women farmers will be able to increase food production, conserve natural resources and decrease malnutrition among women and children. With their new income, women will be able to invest in their communities and send their daughters to school. |
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MADRE members helped us buy this tractor. Thanks to you, more women will be able to feed their children this year and earn money for school fees, medicine and other basic needs.
- Fatima Ahmed, Director & Founder, Zenab for Women in Development
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Yifat Susskind,
121 West 27th Street
Suite 301
New York, NY 10001
United States
212-627-0444
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