The International Centre for Environmental Health and Development (ICEHD) has trained 100 women farmers in FCT and its environs on climate-smart agriculture and agroecology practices.
Speaking at the event on Friday, April 4, 2025, in Abuja, Dr Ndudi Bowei, Consulting Partner for ICEHD, said the initiative aimed to help women farmers adapt to the problem of climate change.
Bowei said the initiative aimed to help women farmers adapt to the problem of climate change.
She said that the initiative which was in collaboration with the Rose of Sharon Foundation (ROSF) aimed to help women farmers adapt to the problem of climate change.
She explained that the training would also help the women to apply adaptation practices that would enable them to adapt to the problem of climate change.
Bowei said that the training would also assist the women to mitigate the impact of climate change on themselves as farmers and on their incomes.
She said that the women farmers were taught on how to grow their farm businesses, how to process their produce, package, label and export them.
”So from this training, they are going to increase their knowledge of smart agriculture, everything that has to do with climate agriculture.
”Now climate change is affecting women farmers terribly, starting from the dryness of the soil to the reduction in the nutrients in the soil.
”We want to teach women to produce tomorrow. We also have farming tools and implements we want to give them.
“When a woman has economic power,” Bowei said.
Also speaking, Mrs. Oloruntosin Taiwo, National Coordinator, ROSF, said that the initiative sought to get stability for widow farmers.
”We have our widows that are also farmers. So what we hope to achieve working with ICEHD is to get stability for our widows farmers.
”So from this training, they are going to increase their knowledge of smart agriculture and everything that has to do with climate agriculture, so that even as they have a change in the climate, their produce is not affected.
”We want them to be able to take care of themselves and their children,” she said.
In a presentation, Mrs Iyabo Mustapha, Assistant Director, Department of Agricultural Land and Climate Change Management Services underscored the importance of agriculture.
Mustapha said that information was important when talking about climate -smart agriculture.
She urged participants to incorporate climate – smart agriculture practices into farming to maintain its productivity.
At the end of the training, the women were empowered with farming inputs and implements, which included solar powered irrigation pumping machines, knapsack sprayers, sprinklers, bio-fertiliser among others.
Speaking, Mrs. Comfort Peter and Ruth Sunday beneficiaries of the initiative appreciated ICEHD and the foundation for the donation and pledged to utilise the training and farm tools given to them.
By Doris Esa