Month: March 2022

Doreen Nsasiirwe wins WOMED Award South

Doreen Jean Nsasiirwe, a Ugandan entrepreneur, won the WOMED Award South 2022 earlier this month. With this award, the organizations Trias and Markant want to stimulate female entrepreneurship. Sandra Ejang and Joy Mary Lwanga were the two other finalists. The day after International Women’s Day, the digital presentation of the WOMED Award Zuid, an award […]

“Women work very hard to help set up their businesses, but often dismiss it as ‘no big deal'”

Eline ter Haar and Lotte Kooiker, Trekker Reizen One has a background in agriculture, the other doesn’t, but together they have a passion for agriculture and travel as the team behind the Dutch agricultural travel agency “Trekker Reizen”. Women in Ag spoke with the women behind this very special company for this double edition of […]

Women have so much power, other than purely physical!

Marieke De Vos, flower grower, Zottegem (Belgium) Our previous encounters have always featured women who produce our food: from cheese and dairy to meat, on the farm, out in the great open or from the saddle. Op de boerderij, of in de wildernis vanuit het zadel. But our sector provides so much more than just […]

Happy first birthday, Women in Ag Magazine!

on International Women’s Day March 8, International Women’s Day. But also the day the first issue of Women in Ag Magazine was published, exactly one year ago. A symbolic date to launch a magazine for and about women in an industry where gender inequality is still a major stumbling block. While we have published beautiful […]

What’s in a name?

by Melanie Epp A few months ago, a lively debate unfolded on Twitter about the term ‘farm wife’. As I’m neither a farmer nor a wife, I decided to keep quiet. But I did follow the conversation closely. It all started when Canadian farmer Megz Reynolds posted this tweet: I’m not sure what led Megz […]