The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) shut down its activities in December 2020 at the end of its mandate. The administrative closure of the Centre was completed in November 2021.
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CTA’s gender work

Gender

On average, four out of five women in ACP countries depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet women earn less than men for the same tasks and have fewer rights to land and property. They also have fewer opportunities to engage in higher-value agribusiness opportunities because they commonly lack the skills, knowledge, finance and access to services they need. Raising women’s income has a disproportionately beneficial ripple effect because women tend to spend more of their income on food, health, clothing, and education for their children than do men.

OUR APPROACH

Gender is a priority theme integrated across all of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation’s (CTA) work.

CTA’s gender work focuses on two key issues: boosting investment on women owned agribusiness development and enabling women beneficiaries to access preferential or special support product and services – ranging from financial grants to weather-based index insurance.

CTA works with a wide range of partners in the agricultural sector in this regard. The organisations include networks of women owned businesses as well as cooperatives, youth organisations and private sector information and communication technologies (ICT) service providers.

Impact stories

Women are key to ensuring food and nutrition security. By empowering them we can ensure that entire families and communities get a nutritious diet.
Judith Francis, senior programme coordinator, CTA

An empowered woman means an empowered community

Key figures

Gender is a priority theme integrated across all of CTA's work

170K+

women farmers have received training or advice since 2016

80%

of women in least-developed countries depend on agriculture

160M

FEWER HUNGRY IF WOMEN FARMERS HAD ACCESS TO THE SAME RESOURCES AS MEN

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CTA is a joint institution operating under the framework of the Cotonou Agreement between the ACP Group of States (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) and the EU Member States (European Union). CTA is funded by the European Union.

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