Elina Amadhila

Gender matters and there is a need for gender-sensitive policies to enhance and improve the participation of women in agriculture and contribute to their overall empowerment.

We tend to think that money on the table is enough but there needs to be an enabling environment including infrastructural issues like irrigation, soil quality, electricity, roads, access to credit, training and human-capital development in agriculture – the focus cannot be on just giving money, said Elina Amadhila of the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Namibia.