Improving access to finance for women farmers in Africa is critical to sustaining food security and empowering women to improve productivity in agriculture as they account for 70 percent of the farming labor force in most African countries. Although they play a significant role in farming, they are still often perceived as not being "real farmers". In the case of Liberia, one of the world's food insecure countries, women face many challenges in growing food. Many of them are producers, processors and marketers but lack basic farming skills, access to finance and limited opportunity for land ownership in agriculture due to cultural and traditional beliefs.