Woman entrepreneur breaks gender barriers by building her mushroom business.

Woman entrepreneur breaks gender barriers by building her mushroom business. In Zimbabwe, this woman entrepreneur is breaking down gender barriers by building her mushroom business with an inclusive sourcing strategy and providing gender training to men and women farmers in her supply chain. In Zimbabwe, many obstacles stand between women and reaching their full potential in agribusiness. Although women play a critical role in agricultural economies, traditional beliefs around division of labor, coupled with lack of access to land, markets and financing among other barriers, relegate them to informal businesses, or exclude them from decision-making roles within the economies they help drive. TechnoServe is partnering with women like Wadzanai Chimhepo to overcome these barriers by building inclusive, women-led agribusinesses that will, in turn create inclusive supply chains of smallholder farmers.