Women’s Agriculture Program
Our Women’s Agriculture Program supports women farmers with tools, seeds, training, and plowing to grow nutritious food for their families and communities. Through collaborative workshops, women learn sustainable farming practices, water conservation, and methods to improve soil health and crop yields. Guest speakers also provide health education. Many participants are able to sell their surplus food increasing food security and generating income. Working with women living well below the global poverty line, who never had a chance to attend school, this program transforms choices and opportunities, strengthens women’s leadership and helps build more resilient, self-sustaining communities.
our impact
- 40 women supported with seeds, tools, and training annually
- 220 children benefited from increased food availability
- 100% of participants report increased household food security
- Most women were able to earn $100 from selling surplus food, their first ever income and a significant amount of money in this region!
Empowering Women, Strengthening Communities
Engage Globally’s Women’s Agriculture and Development program provides women with tools, training, and support to increase food production, earn small incomes, and become community leaders. In a region deeply affected by drought, weather disasters, and rising temperatures, these women are cultivating more than crops—they’re building resilience and hope.
Program Components:
Agricultural inputs
Training & mentorship
Health education
Emergency support
Leadership development
We annually add a new village to this program and are currently supporting 40 women farmers. Last year, we provided additional seeds and resources as the women navigated the region’s worst drought in over 40 years. Their determination—and the community’s collaborative spirit—ensured that every participant harvested crops despite the crisis.
Participant voices
Adamu
“It has brought us together because we share ideas and support each other.”
Bugli
“We now work in groups, which makes farming easier and less lonely.”
Future Growth
- Expand to all nine of our partner communities and add ten more women from each of the four currently participating villages. Each new group would receive training, supplies, and health education.
- Open a small business for each village where women can sell surplus foods and also produce peanut butter and other ‘take-away’ foods.
- Provide food storage facilities in each village so that farmers will lose less of their crops to insects, heat, and rotting.
- Purchase three additional king motos – vehicles that enable women to transport crops much more quickly from farms that are several miles away to their homes. This one intervention can increase harvest by 50%.
- Encourage women to pilot farming techniques such as multi-cropping, ditch irrigation, and the growth of vegetables through personal gardens.
- Purchase a used tractor so that our partners do not have to rent one annually at a very high cost. They would charge a small fee for usage to pay for fuel and maintenance.
Musah
“The program created a network of women who help each other during difficult times.”
Fuseina
“We now have a stronger sense of sisterhood; we know we’re not alone in this.”
Sanatu
“It has built a real community of women who trust and rely on each other. I’ve gained confidence to take charge of my own farm.
Fatimata
“My husband now seeks my opinion before he makes any decision in the family.”
Ayisha
“It teaches us practical skills that we can use right away.”
Bawa
“It has given me the courage to speak up in community meetings.”
Sanatu A.
“I now advise other women who are just starting in farming because I have gained some knowledge from the training sessions of the program.”
Amishaw
“Thanks to this program I can now provide the basic needs of my children.”
This program has tremendous opportunity for growth and impact as it has been transformative to the women, their children, their roles in their community, and to their food security.
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