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Farm Service Agency. 2022. Minority and women farmers and ranchers. Retrieved 4.29.22 from https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/farm-loan-programs/minority-and-women-farmers-and-ranchers/index We were walking around the fields of wheat and I just said: ‘Where does all this go? There’s so much of it,’” Glencross says. “And John goes: ‘Oh probably for animal feed. It’s a consistent market, they’ll take it, it’s easy, even if we don’t earn that much money from it.’ And I was like: ‘This is crazy.’ And that was the beginning of me getting on this grain bender because I was like: ‘Why can’t we grow these grains organically and not feed them to animals?’ So I realised I’d have to start a business, because there were not very many people doing that.” Sustainable agriculture research and education. 2018. Our farms, our future podcast series: women in agriculture. Retrieved 4.29.2 from https://www.sare.org/publications/our-farms-our-future-podcast-series/women-in-agriculture/ Introducing you to our fabulous collection of Ladies Farming Footwear! Having appropriate footwear is absolutely essential when it comes to working on the farm. Nothing makes a task more difficult than having the wrong boots on! When it comes to farming footwear, we’ve got you covered with our collection of ladies farm wellies and women's farmers dealer boots. Make sure you are fully kitted out for facing the Great British outdoors with our women's farming boots. It hadn’t occurred to her that she’d be seen as a second-choice. “I did have to overcome people’s sense that it belittled them to be told what to do by a woman. I had to cajole people, bring them round, but thinking about how you serve the people you work with is sensible anyway.”

It just goes to show that the formal participation of women in agriculture is at “a historic high”. An International Women’s Day protest in New Delhi by Indian farmers and women’s organizations on March 8. Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Unequal market access Climate change can lead to women not being able to work due to weather conditions, lower levels of agricultural productivity due to changing temperatures and pests and diseases and being laid off from work e.g. due to floods, meaning incomes are reduced. This impacts women disproportionately in countries/regions where women are mostly employed in the agriculture sectors. This has caused some women to fall into debt and can prevent families from sending children to school. Design and implement gendersensitive programmes to help enhance economic empowerment of women cocoa farmers

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Waitrose Kenya study: Amy Morris, Barney Smyth (John Lewis Partnership); Tom Cadogan, Mary Nyale, Diana Onyango, Joseph Wachira (Farm Africa). Tambuzi is a small specialist rose supplier in Kenya that employs 300 workers on a full-time basis, indirectly benefiting 3,000 people. Karen Roses comprises of 6 farms in Kenya supplying cut flowers to the UK, Europe and Middle East. Ball, Jennifer A. 2014. She works hard for the money: Women in Kansas agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values 31: 593–605.

Climate Finance Taskforce. (2021). Ways to Gender-Smart Climate Finance: Sustainable agriculture, food and forestry. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.comstatic/60d997f2ecd20831960869e0/t/60e086e4f5551016f147a43b/1625327333075/2X_ClimateTaskforce_Agri_v8.pdf ↩Leslie, Isaac Sohn. 2017. Queer farmers: Sexuality and the transition to sustainable agriculture. Rural Sociology 82 (4): 747–771. This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located.