{"id":10381,"date":"2020-07-17T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T08:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:10","slug":"eu-to-support-women-and-youth-led-farming-outfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/17\/eu-to-support-women-and-youth-led-farming-outfits\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to Support Women and Youth Led Farming Outfits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Union has&nbsp; funded an agriculture programme for selected 200 women and youth led enterprises for support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dubbed AgriBiz, the programme targets creating 17,000 jobs in the agricultural sector countrywide in the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 200 candidates include early stage\/start-up companies, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), women and youth-led community based organisations, as well as self-help groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aim is to increase smallholder production, improve food security and boost household incomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AgriBiz will fund 2,400 women and youth-led agribusinesses as part of the programme, and reach over 1.2 million smallholder beneficiaries over a period of five years at a cost of Sh5.1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An additional Sh17.1 billion in loans will also be leveraged from local financial institutions to support the enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those selected for the programme will benefit from training, business advisory and financing to promote the sustainable use of natural resources and encourage appropriate agribusiness practices. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/business\/kenya\/2020-07-16-eu-to-support-women-and-youth-led-farming-outfits\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has&nbsp; funded an agriculture programme for selected 200 women and youth led enterprises for support. Dubbed AgriBiz, the programme targets creating 17,000 jobs in the agricultural sector&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}