Building capacity and strengthening women’s leadership in both the formal and informal sectors fosters and boosts economies and increases women’s participation within the public space. It increases women’s equal participation in leadership, political, social and economic arenas.
Corn business
This woman sells grilled corn in this informal market, daily she serves dozens of customers coming from several parts of Angola.
She says she already sold many things on the streets of Luanda, but this was very tiring and did not bring many profits. But in this corn business she found stability, and she doesn't have to make a lot of efforts to attract customers.
She also added, that the corn besides being profitable, it is also healthy and sustainable. She has this recommendation to eat corn from her great -grandmothers and Great Grandfathers.
Unfortunately this woman does not have access to land to plant her own corn, she says she buys corn in the park in the hands of peasants and other traders, then she resells this nutritious food at very affordable price.
This profit that comes from corn helps her cover the needs of the house and her family.
Nutrition
Corn contains vitamin B6, a nutrient necessary for maintaining healthy levels of pyridoxine. Pyridoxine deficiency can cause anemia and may increase the risk of developing heart disease, depression, and premenstrual syndrome.
Corn is rich in vitamin C, an antioxidant that helps protect your cells from damage and wards off diseases like cancer and heart disease. Yellow corn is a good source of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, which are good for eye health and help prevent the lens damage that leads to cataracts.
Access to and Control over Assets and Resources
Women are disadvantageous and vulnerable to key agricultural inputs such as land, labour, knowledge, fertilizer, and improved seeds exclusion, which affects their ability to produce. Women farmers are less likely to grow cash crops and use agriculture inputs and production technologies. Men not only own more plots than women, they also own larger plots with the gender difference in terms of surface owned is even larger. Within households, men own about 47% of the land, and mixed ownership (37%).
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