BY AGENCY REPORTER
The Founder and Executive Director of WOFAN, Hajia Salamatu Garba, has emerged the winner of Value4her Women Agriprenuer of the Year 2021 at the 2021 Africa Green Revolution Forum held in Kenya.
Garba, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said that over 2,500 farmers competed from 21 African countries.
She was quoted in the statement as saying that the award recognised WOFAN‘s innovations at mobilising over 4500 functional and mobilised key smallholder farmer’s groups.
It stated that WOFAN had also created 5000 fully registered women and youths in agribusiness, adding that 80 per cent of them were women in various agribusinesses along different crop value sectors.
The 2021 AGRF was a hybrid summit with the theme, ‘Pathways to recovery and resilient food systems,’ hosted in partnership with the government of Kenya between September 7 10.
According to the statement, the Summit convened close to 7,000 participants virtually, including African presidents, agriculture ministers, agricultural stakeholders and experts.
It stressed that the aim was to discuss ways by which the continent could transform food systems and accelerate progress to eradicating hunger and poverty.
The statement indicated Garba’s resolve to continue to be an advocate of re-thinking agriculture and the food systems in Africa.
It urged the leadership to creatively invest in simple equipment and technologies with amplified application, use and development of ICT related farm technology.
It stated that inclusiveness in the financial section and access to finance and trade opportunities across the region needed to be magnified for visibility and action.
It also urged financial institutions to roll out friendly policies to address climate change financing to mitigate the shock being faced globally, while noting that women and youths were the neck of agriculture as they carried the head and body of food security in Africa.
