Unlocking the potential of renewable energy in providing Sustainable Agriculture & food security and ‘Energizing the Ladder’

The conference is set to take place on 13TH virtual and 14th December 2022 at the Weston Hotel Nairobi. This will be a hybrid event, both Virtual and live beamed across the region.

The conference will look at how renewable energy sources will be deployed along the Agri –Sector value chain to fight climate change and empower women along the way. Agriculture value chain activities have the potential to increase demand for sustainable power by more than 20% in three years. Taking into account that women contribute 60% of the food value chain activities in Kenya therefore highly impacted by any change in the energy landscape.

On 14th December 2022 in the afternoon we will have Inaugural Africa Women in Energy leadership forum with the theme ‘Energizing the Ladder’ where we will bring together board members and top leadership players in the energy space with the key objective of sharing leadership development experience in accelerating the advancement of women in the energy sector and transition

With the current ravaging drought situation and high energy cost all eyes will be focused on the role of renewable energy in unlocking the potential of the agricultural sector and enhancing food security. This conference will look at the opportunities and challenges of deploying.

African women contribute up to 60% to 80% of the food in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they have limited access to productive resources. This is due to poor yields and low productivity, which are attributed to limited women’s access to those resources. The under-performance of agriculture in developing countries is attributable to limited access to productive resources, which women experience more severely than men.

Women are important to the agriculture sector in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for up to 52% of the workforce and 50% of the work done on farms. However, due to the informal nature of rural poverty, women are often in vulnerable employment, with the majority of vulnerable employment in the developing world being held by women.