Gender and Youth

Last year, a funding announcement from the federal government in Indonesia made history. It was less about what it was for than who it went to. The funding for two local government programmes went to PKK Nehas Liah Bing, a women’s community-based organization in the East Kalimantan province.

Women make vital contributions to agricultural supply chains across the globe. On International Women’s Day, we join the international community in calling for the rights, equality and empowerment of all women and girls. Each day we see these values expressed in the voices of women we work with in global supply chains.

For five years, Musah Kalamdulai, a cocoa farmer and tailor from the Bremang Nwomaso community in Ghana’s Central region, believed that having his children work on the farm was just part of their contribution to the family farming business. Unaware of the risks to his children’s health and education, they often engaged in spraying agrochemicals, weeding large portions of farmland, pruning or carrying heavy loads.