Stories of Gender and Social Inclusion in Zambia - Value Chains
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2024
- AICCRA Zambia's work is anchored on prioritizing gender equality and social inclusion to transform livelihoods - focusing on removing and overcoming the barriers to the benefits from accessing and using climate information services and climate-smart agriculture
After more than three years working with these communities in Zambia, we visited some of the women and young people involved in the climate-smart bundles to hear their stories.
This video showcases the value chains and cooperatives bundle.
Working with women in cooperatives, organic farming, which includes the integration of agroforestry, has resulted in women getting higher yields and increased savings as they were no longer buying fertilizers. The women's cooperatives were also linked to integrated farming, which saw them producing honey that was exported to the European Union by Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) under the brand 'It's Wild'. Beyond subsistence farming, women are now viewing farming as a business and income-generating activity.