Record Details

Nurturing women-led agri-businesses: Unleashing the potential of women–women networks

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Nurturing women-led agri-businesses: Unleashing the potential of women–women networks
 
Creator Puskur, Ranjitha
Singaraju, Niyati
Muchiru, Caroline
Dido, Sabdiyo
 
Subject gender
agriculture
research
women's empowerment
 
Description VALUE4HER is a continental initiative of the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) aimed at strengthening women’s agribusiness enterprises and enhancing voice and advocacy across Africa. The initiative aims to increase the performance of women entrepreneurs through access to markets and trade, access to finance and investments, learning, networking, and global advocacy aimed at addressing some of the key barriers to women’s business growth and market participation in agriculture. In 2021, the initiative provided innovation grants to 20 SMEs from nine African countries to catalyze market and learning networks and mentorship among women-led businesses. Each of these entrepreneurs connected with 20 micro and nano women entrepreneurs and collaborated with them and mentored them. This presentation highlights the short-term outcomes of this grant including the changes in financial, production and marketing management made by the women entrepreneurs; the enterprise characteristics like revenues and profit margins; and their attitudes and perceptions toward business growth and the role of the network and mentorship in influencing these changes. It also highlights some challenges the entrepreneurs face to grow their businesses, including their limited access to financial and risk management products, time poverty, limited mobility, and agency. The presentation also identifies areas that need more research to inform similar efforts at a larger scale, and to ensure that they responsibly contribute to women’s economic empowerment through entrepreneurship.
 
Date 2023-10-11
2024-01-04T12:46:41Z
2024-01-04T12:46:41Z
 
Type Presentation
 
Identifier Puskur, Ranjitha; Singaraju, Niyati; Muchiru, Caroline; Dido, Sabdiyo. 2023. Nurturing women-led agri-businesses: Unleashing the potential of women–women networks. Presentation. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136989
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform