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Kogi Women Farmers Seek Involvement In Agric Budgeting
The Kogi State chapter of
the Smallholder Women Farmers Association of Nigeria (SHOWFAN), has urged the state government to involve women farmers in the budgeting processes for agriculture.
This, according to the association, is to enable women farmers to participate actively in the public financing of agriculture and make their inputs into the state agricultural Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS).
The President of the association, Hajia Hajaratu Momoh, made the call during an advocacy visit to the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Femi Abolarin on Thursday in Lokoja.
Momoh said women constituted a critical component of agriculture practitioners in developing countries, comprising an average of 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force and contributing to ensuring food security and nutrition.
She expressed regret that in spite of their wealth of knowledge and capacity, women farmers were mostly neglected by policy makers on the altar of gender discrimination and “often disproportionately affected by poverty and hunger’’.
She said that the inclusion of women farmers in the MTSS processes would ensure that priorities in agriculture, food development planning and execution strategies were met, to guarantee them access to development packages.
Also speaking, Mrs Esther Onalo, SHOWFAN leader in Igalamela-Odolu Local Government of the state, urged the government to ensure the involvement of women in the sector to fast-track the development of communities through increased agricultural production.
In his remark, Mr Victor Adejoh, the Project Manager, Participation Initiative for Behavioural Change in Development (PIBCID), one of the development partners of SHOWFAN, said women’s involvement would impact on the ongoing transformation of the agriculture sector.
“Bottom-top approach in budgeting in Civil Society is more result-oriented as it opens the space for accountability and transparency in the MTSS,” he said.
The Director, Planning, Research and Statistics,Mr John Odiba, who represented the Commissioner, commended the women for the visit, saying that the ministry was planning to involve women in participatory budgeting process.
Odiba promised to deliver the message to the commissioner for necessary action.
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Kenyan Runners Dominate Berlin Marathons
Kenya made it a clean sweep at the Berlin Marathon with Sabastian Sawe winning the men’s race and Rosemary Wanjiru triumphing in the women’s.
Sawe finished in two hours, two minutes and 16 seconds to make it three wins in his first three marathons.
The 30-year-old, who was victorious at this year’s London Marathon, set a sizzling pace as he left the field behind and ran much of the race surrounded only by his pacesetters.
Japan’s Akasaki Akira came second after a powerful latter half of the race, finishing almost four minutes behind Sawe, while Ethiopia’s Chimdessa Debele followed in third.
“I did my best and I am happy for this performance,” said Sawe.
“I am so happy for this year. I felt well but you cannot change the weather. Next year will be better.”
Sawe had Kelvin Kiptum’s 2023 world record of 2:00:35 in his sights when he reached halfway in 1:00:12, but faded towards the end.
In the women’s race, Wanjiru sped away from the lead pack after 25 kilometers before finishing in 2:21:05.
Ethiopia’s Dera Dida followed three seconds behind Wanjiru, with Azmera Gebru, also of Ethiopia, coming third in 2:21:29.
Wanjiru’s time was 12 minutes slower than compatriot Ruth Chepng’etich’s world record of 2:09:56, which she set in Chicago in 2024.
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