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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 […]

Seaweed farming in the Philippines: a women-powered industry

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations declared 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF), wanting to spotlight the essential roles women play across agrifood systems, from production to trade. Women farmers are central to food security, nutrition and economic resilience, yet their crucial contributions all too often remain unrecognised and […]

“We are solving food insecurity, one plate at a time”.

Robyn Mijares (Philippines) won the Woman in Ag Award for teaching children to grow their food. At just 24, Robyn Mijares has revolutionized agriculture in the Philippines, one school at a time, one student at a time, mobilizing over 98,000 public school students and their families through sustainable farming. Founder and Executive Director of Grow […]

Women in Ag 2025-003 is out now!

Happy International Day of Rural Women to all the hard-working women in ag! It is no coincidence that we chose this thirtieth edition of this day, picked by the UN to celebrate and call attention to the achievements of women in agriculture, as the day to launch our latest magazine. There is a lot of […]

Women in Ag Magazine 24-003

As autumn has well and truly set in here in our part of the world and we celebrate International Day of Rural Women, we have a brand new magazine to present and announced the winners of the third edition of the Women in Ag Awards. I couldn’t think of a more fitting date for both. […]

Our Lady of the Colours, four generations of girl power on the farm

Never has the name of this feature been more accurate: this is a true encounter, and one we at Women in Ag will remember fondly for a very long time. Our encounter with the four women running the Notre Dame des Couleurs dairy farm in Belfort-du-Quercy, a tiny village in the Lot region in southwestern […]

“Being women makes us better equipped to adapt to change”

Kate Hoare, winner of the Women in Ag Awards 2023, Trenance Dairy, Tideford (Cornwall, UK) In her mid-thirties, Kate Hoare decided to go for a career as a full-time dairy farmer. A farmer’s daughter, her choice to take over her dad’s milk contract and start her own farm with husband Kevin and their three […]

Women in Ag 2023-003

Autumn is here and with it a bright, crisp new issue of Women in Ag Magazine! This issue is taking us to Austria twice, where Antoon met with Angela Stöckl, who runs one of her country’s most innovative dairy farms with compost stables, and Marlene Neuwirth who is completely in her element this season since […]

Women in Ag 2023-002

The new Women in Ag magazine has arrived and it is packed full of sunshine! In this issue, we take you to Toledo (Spain) where we attended the ICAR conference in the beautiful historic center of the city and met Marta Cuesta and Patricia Garzarán, two city girls who went to the mountains for a […]