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Malawian women win
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Malawian women win
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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July 2001, Jesse Kaunde, an entrepreneurial woman farmer from Malawi, was presented in the name of all women farmers in the country with the African Woman Food Farmer Award of the Hunger Project, worth US$ 200,000. In 1993, with a US$ 600 loan from the National Association of Business Women of Malawi, Kaunde attended a fish farming course and constructed a fish dam. She has three dams and sells fish on the market and fingerlings to other women fish farmers. What s more, she is one of the few farmers using gravity irrigation for her crops. She cannot dispose of the award money herself that has been added to a national fund for small loans to women farmers.
July 2001, Jesse Kaunde, an entrepreneurial woman farmer from Malawi, was presented in the name of all women farmers in the country with the African Woman Food Farmer Award of the Hunger Project, worth US$ 200,000. In 1993, with a US$ 600 loan from... |
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2014-10-16T09:06:06Z
2014-10-16T09:06:06Z 2001 |
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News Item
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CTA. 2001. Malawian women win. Spore 96. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46352 |
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en
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Spore;96
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CTA
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Spore
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