Women in Agriculture: Cooking Their Way to Empowerment and Visibility

An ILO initiative in north Lebanon is training women on food preparation and marketing, to help them make a living, market excess produce, and carve a visible role for themselves in the agricultural sector.

The initiative is supporting a number of women in an agricultural area of Lebanon to create their own cooking and catering lines to generate income, and to affirm their status as valuable members of both their individual communities and the agricultural sector.

The women in question come from struggling rural communities that face particularly challenging circumstances: they are from Akkar, a northern Lebanese district which is Lebanon’s poorest area. In recent years, it has received large numbers of Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

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