{"id":8973,"date":"2019-09-09T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2019-09-09T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:40:39","slug":"donne-africane-nel-settore-agro-alimentare-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/working-in-africa\/african-women-in-the-agro-food-business\/","title":{"rendered":"African women in agribusiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Despite holding 60% of the world's arable land,<\/strong> <strong>African countries import almost USD 50 billion net of food each year.<\/strong> However, a growing population and a rising middle class represent a huge opportunity for the agribusiness and consumer market now and in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The agricultural sector in Africa<\/strong> is undergoing a dramatic transformation as a result of the influx of women into the sector. As such African women are playing an important role in shaping the growth of agriculture on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>One of the 17 ambitious global development goals adopted in 2015 aims to give women equal rights to economic resources, including access to land ownership and control.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation <strong>( FAO )<\/strong>, women account for 70% of the agricultural labour force in Africa and 10% of basic food processing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite holding 60% of the world's arable land, African countries import almost USD 50 billion net of food each year. However, a growing population and a rising middle class represent a huge opportunity for the agribusiness and consumer market ... <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"African women in agribusiness\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/working-in-africa\/african-women-in-the-agro-food-business\/#more-8973\" aria-label=\"More on African women in agribusiness\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38,44,138,171,215,216,229],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aedic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}