Networking helps strengthen six all-female agro-processing groups

Products manufactured by one of the groups in the Network at this year’s GuyExpo

Six all-female, agro-processing groups separated by vast expanses of land, water and mountainous terrain are discovering that there is mutual gain to be derived from collaborating even across those distances.

The Women’s Agro-processors Develop-ment Network (WADN) was established one year ago with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) to accelerate the individual small ventures located in Regions 1, 2 and 9 with the intention of ensuring that the group members