AWARFA-N
Seventy women from thirty-two Member States of the African Union were convened by the African Union-InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) under the Live2Africa Project with funding from the European Union (EU) to establish the African Women in Animal Resources Farming and Agribusiness Network (AWARFA-N). Participants were drawn from stakeholders across the sector including farmers, processors and traders, financial and insurance actors, service providers, government officials, advocacy and lobbying interests, development partners, academia and research, lawyers, among others. The Dakar Declaration focused on the Dairy Sector, AWARFA-N builds on this initiative to expand the scope into the breadth of the Animal Resources sector. Cognizant that the animal resources sector, as articulated in the Livestock Development Strategy for Africa, has the potential to deliver both the agricultural led growth and the socio-economic transformation as envisioned by African Union Heads of State and Government in the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Africa Agriculture Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods; and cognizant that the animal resources sector was worth US $ 51 billion in 2005/6 and is expected to rise to over US $ 151 billion by 2050, presenting a powerful business proposition and opportunity.
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