The Arab International Women’s Forum is delighted to announce that in March 2025 we will be co-hosting a key event with the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), The Centre for Women, Peace and Security, The LSE International Development Department and the LSE Middle East Centre on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2025. The event, ‘Empowering Women in Agriculture: Navigating Peace, Conflict and Food Security’, will platform the diverse voices of women who work or are involved in the agricultural sector and who are leading the way within their own communities and internationally to make the sector sustainable.
Across Africa, approximately 68% of the labour force work in agriculture and the continent has one of the largest representation of women working in agriculture in the world. The agricultural landscape is changing rapidly across Africa with climate change presenting huge challenges not only to environments and economies, but to people’s livelihoods, cultures, and identities. In the wake of accelerated environmental and social change, structural inequalities, gendered relations of power, and conflict continue to constrain women’s full participation in agricultural activities. However, despite these very real challenges, women are forging new pathways for agricultural innovation to address critical issues of sustainability, inequality, sovereignty, and peace.
When: Saturday 08 March 2025 8:30AM
Where: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, London School of Economics, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ
Programme Information & Booking: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/firoz-lalji-institute-for-africa/t-kraeymn
