Gender, agriculture and ICTs: What you can do with 7000 euros

In Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo, women’s cassava root crops were being destroyed by pests but thanks to some internet training, they increased their healthy crop production and agricultural knowledge. In the Dominican Republic, women from an agro-processing cooperative learned to better manage their production thanks to an ICT training -many of them were 50 years old or more, which is “old” and “good for nothing” by rural Dominican standards. Find out more about what GenARDIS projects were able to achieve with small grants of about 7000 euros.

Internet research brings solutions to crop diseases
IFDAP, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

In the DRC’s border region of Uvira, women’s cassava root crops were being destroyed by pests.

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