Empowering Women for the Green Revolution

ICRW’s director of economic development, Rekha Mehra, will speak about the challenges women farmers face and offer recommendations on how to overcome them during a panel session of the African Green Revolution Forum. The discussion will be chaired by Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation.

For more information please visit http://agrforum.com/

Speakers: 

Rekha Mehra, director, economic development, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Maria Helena de Morais Semedo, regional representative for Africa, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Judi Wakhungu, executive director, African Centre for Technology Studies
Vicki Wilde, director, gender and diversity program, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

When: 
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Where: 
Accra International Conference Centre
Castle Rd.
Accra
Ghana
Host: 
Ghanian President John Atta Mills and the government of Ghana