Benin: agroecology for out-of-school girls
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The participants learn how to make a natural solution to hunt pest insects.
RFI / Delphine Bousquet
By: Delphine Bousquet
4 min
Make young Beninese out of school in rural areas green entrepreneurs.
This is the Women Agripreneures project, a project set up by the Les Jardins de l'Espoir association which has been promoting agroecology on several sites in southern Benin for four years.
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There are four phases, funded by the American organization IREX: fifteen days of introduction to agroecology, internship on a farm for three months, training in entrepreneurship and monitoring of each participant.
The objective is that they become financially autonomous with a profitable and ecological agricultural activity.
Report during training in agroecology in Tori Bossito, an hour's drive from Cotonou, from our correspondent on site.
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