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The Cheshire College of Agriculture was opened in 1921 to provide courses in agriculture—initially just for men, but female students were admitted from 1926 and a dairy department was built soon after. Many agricultural schools and colleges were used for training the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War. Higher vulnerability to physical and mental health impacts, e.g. crop failure impacting income and food scarcity, causing malnutrition in women as they provide for men and children first CARE. (2019). GenderTransformative Adaptation: From Good Practice to Better Policy. Retrieved from https://insights.careinternational.org.uk/media/k2/attachments/CARE_Gender-Transformative-Adaptation_2019.pdf ↩

Indian farmers leave a protest in February 2021. Muzamil Mattoo/NurPhoto via Getty Images Invisible, unpaid labor force Wypler, Jaclyn. 2019. Lesbian and queer sustainable farmer networks in the Midwest. Society & Natural Resources 32 (8): 947–964. Tambuzi is a small specialist rose supplier in Kenya that employs 300 workers on a full-time basis, indirectly benefiting 3,000 people. Karen Roses comprises of 6 farms in Kenya supplying cut flowers to the UK, Europe and Middle East.Climate-smart agriculture: (e.g. precision farming, soil and water management, farmland carbon storage, inter-cropping, reafforestation). Support suppliers to decarbonise with a gender lens: Incorporate criteria on gender and other inequalities within sourcing policies and codes of conduct for suppliers both overall, and as part of new Net-Zero requirements for suppliers. Offer preferred supplier status to those advanced on their Net-Zero journey, who are implementing this in ways that demonstrate investment in women’s empowerment. These may be informed by existing tools such as the UN’s Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool. [footnote 71] Support suppliers by investing in new low-carbon technologies. This is particularly relevant for smallholder female farmers who do not have access to capital. Investments could include solar irrigation systems, low carbon farming machinery, solar energy technologies for cooling and refrigeration.

DuPuis, E. Melanie., and Sean Gillon. 2009. Alternative modes of governance: Organic as civic engagement. Agriculture and Human Values 26 (1): 43–56. This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located. Horst, Megan, and Amy Marion. 2018. Racial, ethnic and gender inequalities in farmland ownership and farming in the U.S. Agriculture and Human Values 36: 1–6.Yet their work feeding their families and the country remains undervalued and largely overlooked by the government. Women are not just disproportionately affected by climate change, but also in their ability to respond through climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. A gender gap in access to and control of assets, including land, machinery, credit and digital technologies, is contributing to this. Leadership, assets and credit

See detailed case study in Business Fights Poverty (2020) Engaging Men as Allies Report https://businessfightspoverty.org/gender-equality-is-everyones-business-engaging-men-as-allies-to-advance-gender-equality-across-the-value-chain/ ↩ Constance, Douglas H., Jin Young Choi, and Damian Lara. 2015. Engaging the organic conventionalization debate. In Re-Thinking organic food and farming in a changing world, 161–185. Dordrecht: Springer.This is not always the case – for instance, certain regions in Malawi are matrilineal, meaning women inherit and own land (Malawi ETP) ↩ If you prefer leather style women's farming boots, we’ve also got our popular Tullymore leather boot which is a stylish but great value performer too. All our leather women's farm boots are also weather-resistant provided you look after and clean them regularly. So, stay protected from the elements and whatever the British weather chooses to throw your way with our women's farm boots.