At the FIRA World fair earlier this year, we met Paloma Rodriguez. Paloma is Platform Manager Robotics & Digital – Specialty Crops at New Holland. She works at the Coëx plant in France. At FIRA World, New Holland presented their T4 Specilty Crop tractor with the Advanced Vision Assisted Guidance (AVAG) system. We had a short talk with Paloma about her love for agriculture and working in a male dominated sector.
Joëlla Mujijima Buhendwa, founder and CEO of AstiFerme and winner of the Women in Ag Award (Agriculture), DR Congo Joëlla Mujijima Buhendwa leads a circular agriculture initiative that transforms household organic waste into high-quality animal feed and organic fertilizer through the farming of black soldier flies. A model that reduces pollution, replaces imported protein sources, […]
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On February 11th, the Odisee University of Applied Sciences and Women in Ag Magazine are hosting the symposium “Rooted in resilience: Women in Agriculture”. This event will take place on the campus of the Odisee University of Applied Sciences in Sint-Niklaas. The event will be hosted in Dutch. 2026 has been declared the International Year […]
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At only 26, Alicia Gómez Giménez impressed the WiA Awards jury with Manderly Agriculture, the project she built from scratch on an island with almost no agricultural activity. We had a talk with her right before the award ceremony at Agritechnica, last November. How was Manderly Agriculture born, and why did you decide to start a […]
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