“Without the voice of women in the room, and without them being a key part of how we grow, we’re not going to be that business that’s going to be hugely successful”
Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International:
“In agriculture, how do you bring a small-scale producer closer to the large-scale businesses that will essentially help them jump in terms of volume? A lot of it is about working with #women.”
Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International:
“Women are the majority of the labour force in agriculture in some countries — as high as 80%. We’re missing something if we can’t bring women into the conversation about sustainable sourcing.”
Lucy Kerei, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa:
“We want to change the narrative on what women can do in value chains. We are promoting a conversation between men, women, and the communities in which these #women work to ensure that they’re part and parcel of that conversation”
Lucy Kerei, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa:
“If we are truly building an equitable supply chain — even as smaller businesses — then we need to design for our true end user, understand it’s a different group of people, listen to them, reach them where they are”
Katharine Teague, ABF Sugar:
“Sometimes we think that becoming a manager or a leader is something those women would want. It might not be. We need to make sure that we have aligned and listened bottom-up, as well as thinking top-down how we create the change we’re looking for”
Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International:
“From applying the bottom-up approach, we very much see that social and gender norms are still a key factor stopping women from being able to scale up”
