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Summary
Home-grown rice is critical to food security across Africa, but high temperatures and erratic rainfall, attributed to climate change, have created a “rice crisis.” Senegal’s unique solutions include empowering women to support the country’s National Rice Self-Sufficiency Program. Women now play a key this sustainability strategy, and their leadership has created a new generation of activists pursuing economic and social equality.
Goals & Objectives
We introduced readers to Senegalese women climate activists, entrepreneurs, and farmers. We also detail how Senegal’s support of women rice farmers can inform other governments’ sustainability strategies and influence attitudes toward women’s economic and social equality.
Results & Impact
25,600 people have read the story in English & French. Part of the story was republished by the World Economic Forum, read by 1.5 million monthly. The video has 128,000 views. Influencers and development organizations, including UN Women, cross-posted heavily. This French tweet received 1.2M views.
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