OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly - Women's Forum
10 November 2026
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DELEGATIONS European Parliament
18:22 - 21:22
Speaker 1
Good afternoon. Good afternoon everybody and very much welcome to this Women's Forum on Transformative Policies in Agro-food Systems.
Honourable colleagues, excellencies, dear friends, please take your seat, that will be fine, yes, and leaders from across the OACPS region and the European Union, a very warm welcome to Brussels and this second editions of the Women's Forum, taking place as part of the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly since the signing of the Samoa Agreement. My name is Ingeborg ter Laak, and I'm a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands and from the group of the European People's Party, and together here with my colleague, Honourable Mr. Mathew Sahr Nyuma, member of the National Assembly of Sierra Leone, and I'm honoured to co-chair this meeting together. Looking around the room today, I'm thrilled to see so much a magnificent presence of women from in our audience, but let me be very clear. There's no discussion on the future of women can be made without men.
Gender equality is a social challenge, and I'm happy to see our male colleagues and leaders here with us today, standing as allies in this mission. And it's a privilege to open this Women's Forum dedicated to the topic of gender transformative policies in agrifood system, with the United Nations declaration of 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer. This milestone year is a global wake-up call, a moral mandate, and an economic necessity. We When we empower women farmers, we transform the entire agrifood system, eradicate hunger, build climate resilience, and drive sustainable economic growth. The current common agriculture policy, the CAP, explicitly promotes women's participation in farming and in rural economies.
In their CAP strategic plans, the EU countries have greater scope to introduce targeted measures, including enhanced financial support for women farmers. In Eswatini, earlier this year, we spoke on the critical role of women in agriculture food chains. We acknowledge that women are the backbone of food security in Europe, in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. But we also acknowledge a painful paradox.
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