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How to empower women innovators in agrifood? Guidelines for programme design

How to close the existing gap in the support for women entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector? How to unlock the potential of agrifood sector by increasing the level of gender equality in the region?

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05 Mar 2024

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Transition towards more innovative agrifood sector cannot only ensure that women are not left behind but shall put women in the centre of this transformation as key driving force. To achieve this goal enhanced awareness and integration of all available and relevant EU and national funding tools and policies is needed. The Guidelines for successful female entrepreneurship programmes in agrifood prepared by EIT Food are aimed to support regional agencies, publicly funded organisations, NGOs and private companies in designing female entrepreneurship support programmes in agrifood to accelerate the transition towards more innovative, sustainable and equal agrifood sector.

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Main topics covered in this report:

  • What are the existing gaps in female agrifood entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe?
  • What are the success factors and barriers in the implemented programmes empowering women in agrifood sector
  • How to design an effective and successful support programme for women entrepreneurs?

The EIT Food Report “How to empower women innovators in agrifood?” is based on the analysis of entrepreneurial and agrifood landscape for women in 15 CEE countries, as well as interviews with experts from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

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