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US$13 Million Grant Boosts African Women Scientists in Agriculture |
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16 January 2008
The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) launched on 5 December 2007 a US$13 million pan-African initiative to increase the role of women scientists in agriculture.
One of the main objectives of the initiative is to increase the number of women scientists on the continent, provide role models and address institutional biases that limit women’s participation in agricultural research.
Finance institutions such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States-based Rockefeller Foundation have given support to African women scientists who have already brought sustainable improvements to the farm sector where smallholder women farmers bear much of the responsibility for improving their own lives. African women scientists have carried out research that has resulted in increased agricultural productivity.
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