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WEDI Program: Babban Gona Trains 104,564 Women in Entrepreneurship

Babban Gona, a leading agricultural company in Nigeria, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, has trained over 100,000 women in entrepreneurship over the last year through the WEDI program.  The beneficiaries were trained under the Women Entrepreneurship Development Initiative (WEDI) undertaken by Babban Gona in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The women were trained in Ikara, Soba, …

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“Better Life” Mantra. More Than Just Words. How We Live It

Statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) pegged Nigeria’s unemployment rate at a staggering 33.3% in Q4 2020. This is a 6.2% increase on the level recorded in Q3 2020. PricewaterhouseCoopers’s report entitled “Nigeria Economic Alert” published in September 2020 attributes this increase to a few notable factors; including low levels of industrialisation, …

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IFAD partners with Babban Gona to boost private funding of rural businesses and small-scale farmers

Rural businesses, which are so vital for transforming our food systems, will get a much needed boost from an ambitious new financing programme launched today by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as part of its broader efforts to address rising hunger and poverty levels in the world’s poorest countries. The Private Sector Financing Programme …

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Women in Agriculture: The untold stories of Growth and Empowerment.

Women in Agriculture – Gender inequality is an issue that continues to pervade every echelon of  society. Although several efforts have been made to extinguish it, gender inequality still eats deep into every corner of our society. The very fact that out of 195 countries, women head only 22, is one of many statistics that …

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