Month: August 2025

More and more female farmers run Flemish farms

The proportion of female business leaders in the Flemish agriculture and horticulture sectors continues to increase. Young women in particular are increasingly taking on leadership roles in agriculture, according to an article by Flemish agricultural organisation Vilt. “We can only applaud the evolution towards more gender equality in managerial positions in agriculture,” Flemish Minister of […]

“Rural abuse and urban abuse are so different”

How the isolation of rural life can become an abuser’s weapon Trigger warnings: coercive control, abuse, violence against women, femicide There is a difference between rural abuse and urban abuse. In 2018, 14-year old Georgia Gabriel-Hooper (UK) witnessed the murder of her mother Cheryl, by her former partner Andrew Hooper. Georgia was sat […]