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Youth Climate Navigators (YCN) sincerely thanks everyone who joined and supported our 2nd webinar series, “Savings, Scale, Sustain: Financing Women’s Farms for Long-term Impact.”
Through the Maria FarmHers Climate Resilience Enterprise Hub, the webinar underscored a powerful message as we move toward the United Nations’ declaration of 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer: investing in women farmers is essential to climate resilience, food security, and inclusive growth.
The session opened with insights from Kim Peñaflor, YCN Country Director, & fintech and financial planning expert, who set the tone for a grounded and engaging exchange on financial literacy, sustainable farming, and women-led agri-enterprises.
🌏 Keynote speaker Dana Marie Joseph, RPF, Owner of DJoseph Environmental Management Consultancy Services and Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative YSEALI Academic Fellow (2016), highlighted the importance of diverse leadership, mission-driven enterprises, and community-based solutions in environmental management.
👩‍🌾 From Lanao del Sur, Sittie Aisah Balt-Amor, Founder of Kakaw Meranaw, shared her journey of building a community-led cacao enterprise rooted in culture, science, and collective leadership. Her story showed that resilience is built through persistence, learning from the ground up, strong partnerships, and the support of youth and cooperative networks—even in conflict-affected communities.
🌾 Apols Garmay of Hidden Manna Farms, our fellow YSEALI Philippines leader, shed light on the financial realities women farmers face—limited access to capital, invisible labor, and cash-flow traps—while reframing the narrative: women farmers are not unprofitable, but often over-responsible. She introduced the SSS Growth Pathway (Survival, Stability, Sustainable Scale) and championed financing approaches that work for women, including savings-led growth, community-based financing, right-sized capital, and contract farming.
As we prepare for 2026, this conversation reaffirmed one truth: empowering women farmers is not just a social imperative—it is a climate solution.
With gratitude to our partners:
UNICEF Philippines, Positive Youth Development Network, & Kabataang Resilient Network