COPA Women’s Committee

BRUSSELS, May 27th 2016

On occasion of the meeting held by the COPA WOMEN’S COMMITTEE on May 27th in Brussels, Margit Batthyany-Schmidt intervened as Member of the Board of Directors of WUSME, First Vice-President of COPA Women’s Committee and Member of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, focusing on the theme “Women and Entrepreneurship”. Batthyany-Schmidt, announced in her speech that, in the month of April in the Republic of San Marino, the 4th General Assembly of WUSME was held together with a specific Workshop on Financing SMEs. She emphasized the importance, inside WUSME for the period 2016-2021, of the promotion of women entrepreneurs and in particular the role of women in agriculture in the developing countries. “There are about 450 million small-scale farmers’ families, representing 2 billion people, who rely on the various levels of agricultural production for sustenance. They – she has declared- represent the largest customer segment for the livelihood of those living on less than $ 2 a day. But they are not just farmers. Consumers who have different financial needs are also, such as earning income from a variety of non-agricultural sources, including labor and non-agricultural enterprises”. Batthyany-Schmidt concluded by highlighting that the first step to achieve success with these customers is to better understand their needs, preferences, aspirations and behaviors. A matter more relevant than ever, which WUSME is actively working on with its Women’s Commission