These groups of women farmers made these proclamations during a five-day nation wide tour of Caravan on hunger free campaign organised by ActionAid The Gambia, as part of activities marking World Food Day, which was coordinated by African Youths Coalition Against Hunger (AYCAH). 
According to the women who spoke during the Caravan meetings in Bwiam, Soma, Farafenni, Brikama-ba and Basse, if they are given lands, the much talked about global food crisis would never be a threat to Gambians. Isatou Sillah, a woman farmer in Farafenni, said the women farmers are never wasted. According to her, in most cases they are encountered with problems such as the lack of fertilizer and farming implements, as well as the timely provision of seeds and seedlings. 

She commended ActionAid for meeting them at the grassroots level to know their problems but  appealed for further assistance from the organisation to provide them with the much required farming implements, fertilizers, seeds amongst others. In the views of Isatou, if the poor people progress, then all the other sectors of society will follow suit because it means that they have increased their production base. "We are therefore calling on our governments to invest more in agriculture," these were the words of Bintou Badjan, another woman farmer in Brikama-ba. According to her, women farmers could only be assured of assistance when authorities change their policies in favour of the farmers.

Metta Korta, a woman farmer in Bwiam, said that they as farmers need more than just land to cultivate but also farming implements and fertilizer and a lucrative market to sell their produce. She also assured that when they are given seeds and a better transport system, it would also earn them a better way to attain better living conditions in the farming process. Deputising for the NBR governor, Alhaji Edwarr Seckan, the chief executive officer of Kerewan Area Council, Tamba Kinteh, said that the government is aware that any effective policy or strategy needs to be understood by its intended beneficiaries as their own and this is most likely to occur by the participation of a wide range of people living in poverty and reflects the concerns voiced by the poor themselves. According to him, when poor men and women are heard and participate in the design of a poverty strategy, the government would have assured of grounds to be confident that their poverty alleviation policies and programmes  have positive impact on the daily lives of people for whom they are intended.

For his part, Sanna Bah, coordinator of AYCAH, used the platform to urge the governments to do more to meet the Maputo Agreement and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target to half hunger by 2015. "We are urging all governments to do more to eradicate hunger and salvage the life and livelihoods of many people, most of whom are women and children. The scope of hunger, he went on is very wide, particularly in Africa. "Our governments should never allow needless hunger to ravage our people," Bah remarked. 

Jainaba Nyang-Njie, Communications officer ActionAid T he Gambia, told the audience that the Hunger Free Campaign caravan initiative was meant to help the women to take ownership of land in the farming communities. She told both meetings that the caravan, which is composed of artists, actors, farmers, activists and journalists, met with women groups, alkalolu, chiefs and governors across the length and breadth of The Gambia.