The United Nations is recognizing 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer, aiming to spotlight the contributions ...

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According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, there are 1.2 million female producers – accounting for 36% of total producers. Here’s how four of them are crushing stereotypes and sharing life on the ...

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Women are essential to agriculture, as leaders on and off the farm, from running a farm or ranch business to advocating on Capitol Hill. The American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership program provides ...

Female farmers in Iowa are advocating for more women in the agriculture business as Women’s History Month comes to a close. The most recent number of Iowa farms with female producers totaled 45,786 of ...

A combine harvests soybeans near Wyoming, Iowa, in October 2023. New University of Iowa research looks into what women farmers in Iowa are stressed about. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo Heavy ...

Recent research suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running. If ...

Women's collectives promote climate-resilient farming Men still dominate land ownership, key crop decisions Female self-help groups hailed as a "game-changer" CHEVATURU, India, Nov 22 (Thomson Reuters ...

Natalina Atim (center) displays her cassava tubers after harvesting them from her group farm in Agoro-Maji, Magwi County, South Sudan. Photo: World Bank/ MAFS. More than 369,737 farmers (67% female) ...

To protect India’s farmers, the government has stood firm — at considerable cost — against the US push to open up the country’s agriculture sector. However, much more is needed to remedy the Indian ...

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...