Six hundred participants met in Kigali to work through the three constraints that come up in every conversation about women in African agriculture: land tenure, access to capital, and a path into leadership.
What happened
Morning panels paired growers with lenders and land-registry officials. Afternoons ran as working groups, each tasked with producing one concrete recommendation.
What came of it
The forum's capital working group became the pipeline for the Agripreneur Accelerator's 2026 cohort, which opened with a majority of women-led applicants for the first time.