Year: 2026

Women in Ag Award 2026: winners announced!

DLG (German Agricultural Society) and Women in Ag Magazine have announced the winners of this year’s Women in Ag Award. The announcement comes in a year of particular significance, with the United Nations declaring 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF 2026), an initiative aimed at increasing the visibility of women’s achievements in […]

Women in Agricultural Innovation Award 2026: applications now open

Women are helping shape the future of agriculture — and their work deserves to be seen. For its second edition, the Women in Agricultural Innovation Award is expanding its scope beyond agricultural robotics. The award now celebrates women driving innovation across the wider AgTech sector, from robotics and precision agriculture to agricultural data, biotech, digital tools, […]

Women in Ag and Hectares @ SPACE

Come meet us at the global show for animal farming in Rennes, France! The French exhibition dedicated to livestock and agricultural production, SPACE, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and we will be here for it! The international exhibition, located at the heart of France’s livestock region of Brittany, will take place on September 15, […]

Summer issue out now!

The new issue of Women in Ag Magazine is out! In this issue, our editor in chief shares some personal struggles (hello European heatwave) and how she copes with them, but you’ll also read about: – a Belgian research paper that highlights persistent gender equality in our industry, backed with stats – an interview with […]

Paso Robles Hosts First Annual Women in Olive Oil Retreat

By Linda Reed An unseasonably warm breeze wafted through the patio of the Paso Robles Inn, where seventeen enthusiasts from around the globe gathered to talk about olive oil. Among them were growers and producers, sommeliers and educators, marketers and aficionados. The occasion was the first annual retreat held by Women in Olive Oil (WIOO). […]

WWSF is looking for candidates fort his year’s Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life

The Swiss-based Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF), the international humanitatian ngo behind International Day of Rural Women (October 15th), is looking for candidates for its annual Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life. Designed to draw international attention to laureates’ contributions and award them 1000USD of support, the prize was created in Geneva in 1994 […]

Women farmers’ access to justice and resources centre stage at FAO Rome’s hq for International Women’s Day 2026

FAO, IFAD and WFP bring together high-level representatives and farmers’ organizations for the annual joint event in Rome on March 5th The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) marked International Women’s Day earlier this month with a joint […]

Applications for the Women in Ag Award 2026 now open!

The Women in Ag Foundation and the DLG (German Agricultural Society) will confer the international Women in Ag Award for the fifth time this year. Open to international candidates across the entire agricultural sector — from livestock to crop and horticultural production — the award recognizes professional women working in one of four categories: agriculture; […]

REVIEW: One size fits none

As I was reading “From the ground up” by Stephanie Anderson for the last edition of Women in Ag Magazine, I was reminded of December 2020. In late November of that year, I suffered a microscopic brain hemorrhage, small enough that nothing serious happened, but bad enough for a reality check. During the weeks of […]

Is the International Year of the Woman Farmer really necessary?

A column by Judith De Vor The year 2026 has been declared International Year of the Woman Farmer by the United Nations. A remarkable initiative. Is it really necessary? I was reminded of a morning in rural northern India. It was still cool, the sun just above the horizon. A woman bent over the […]