Category Archives: Agriculture

ISSUED IN TAMALE BY HAJIA ALIMA SAGITO-SAEED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – SAVANNAH WOMAN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT AGENCY GHANA 15TH OCTOBER 2023 The theme for International Day of Rural Women is Rural Women Cultivating Good food for all. It highlights the essential role that rural women and girls play in the food systems globally. This is from productionContinue reading “Press Statement: International Day of the Rural Woman-2023”

Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed, Executive Director of Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-GH), an NGO, has called on government to support women in agriculture to reduce Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) in the country.  She said most of the SGBV cases resulted from women’s over-reliance on their male counterparts for their needs.  She said, “If womenContinue reading “Empowering women in agriculture critical to minimising SGBV — SWIDA-GH”

On the World day to Combat Desertification and Drought, the Savanna Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Ghana), called on governments and traditional leaders, to foster collaborations to develop and advance policies pertaining to access to land by women. SWIDA-Ghana highlighted the need for women to not only have access to land, but have that documented, toContinue reading “Advance policies to secure Women’s access to Land – SWIDA to government”

As part of empowerment actions for women farmers in northern Ghana, SWIDA-Ghana has been providing them training on how to help them maximize gains on the field. The climate-smart farming methods on which the organization has been training the women farmers, include largely the use of nature-based solutions on the farm. The farmers also receivedContinue reading “SWIDA-Gh’s Follow up Activity after Training Women Farmers”