Most women in Nigeria’s rural communities depend on small-scale farming for their daily provisions — but when it comes to climate change, men have far greater access to the tools to mitigate it, from fertilisers to financing.
SWEDIWorld works with smallholder women farmers to close that gap, supplying climate-smart agricultural tools and knowledge that strengthen both yields and household food security. We partner with researchers and agronomists so that farmers can test practical adaptations — organic pesticides and fertilisers, and local crop varieties suited to changing weather.
Climate resilience and environmental projects
Tree-planting campaigns, sustainable agricultural practices and waste management initiatives, run with the communities that live with the consequences of a warming climate.
The work is grounded in evidence: our founder’s postgraduate research examined precisely this question — the role smallholder women farmers play in keeping households fed.